camus vs sartre

not really much in the article...just interesting that people are still comparing these two so many years after their deaths...

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/14/sartre-and-camus-in-new-york/

the couple things that were interesting were the passages about camus and his interest in the american way of death (seems to fit him) and sartre's observation that america is really a land of conformism (very true)

...He (camus) read her pages from “The Plague” and she, in return, noting his fascination with the American way of death, found him issues of undertakers’ trade magazines — Sunnyside, Casket,and Embalmer’s Monthly. He particularly admired a funeral parlor ad: “You die. We do the rest.”


...he (sartre) comes to the conclusion in another article, written for Le Figaro, that America is the land of conformism. He finds that beneath its notional attachment to “individualism,” America does not actually trust the solitary individual.