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The present moment and the succession of present moments confronting a mind that always remains conscious, that is the ideal of the absurd man.
Le présent et la succession des présents devant une âme sans cesse consciente, c’est l’idéal de l’homme absurd. (Le Mythe de Sisyphe, Essais, p. 145.)
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Chaitin, G.D. (1992). Narrative Desire in L’Etranger. In: King, A. (eds) Camus’s L’Etranger: Fifty Years on. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22003-8_13
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