There is an Invincible Summer in Me
by G
About This Novel
"There is an Invincible Summer in Me" is a collection of essays by Camus. The creation spans nearly 20 years (1935-1953), and is Camus's literary experimental field from youth to ideological maturity. This book selects 14 of Camus's essays. In these chapters, Camus uses the living scenes of the slums of Algiers as anatomical samples, juxtaposing death and poverty with the sun and the ocean, revealing the absurd nature of existence: the brilliance and decay of life are always parasitic to each other, just like the never-fading blue sky on the land of North Africa forever envelopes human suffering. At the same time, Camus showed the uniqueness of his own thinking through his odes to Tipasa, Djemilla and other places. Different from the philosophical thinking in Sartre's cafe, Camus's philosophy was born in the sun-baked ruins, the salty sea breeze and the fragrance of the fig tree. Here he established his absolute loyalty to "the incomprehensible beauty of the world" - not through rational cognition, but using his whole body to feel the temperature of the rocks and the rhythm of the waves, achieving a brief reconciliation with the universe in the ecstasy of the senses. The most profound value of this work is that it shows the most authentic form of existentialism: not a conceptual game in a study room, but the pain and pleasure of stepping on hot sand with bare feet. In this work, Camus also established his lifelong writing theme - to resist the eternal darkness with his greedy sucking of sunlight, and to embrace the passion of life in the face of absurdity. This thought was later sublimated into the famous assertion that "Sisyphus should be imagined to be happy" in "The Myth of Sisyphus", but its origin is precisely the sober and intoxicated gaze on life of the poor young man in this book who stares at the sea from the balcony of the slum.
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