Hi all,
I’m getting over a cold, so I’ve attributed that to my writing. It was a little difficult to capture Camus’s writing style, but I tried to capture absurdity in the wake of the 1980’s AIDS epidemic.
I hope it makes you laugh, and think, at the very least.
Melissa
I chose to do my creative project in the form of a short story as I thought that was the most appropriate way to express Sartre’s ideas. I didn’t focus on the obvious idea in Sartre’s works of existence proceeds essence, as I feel there has already been so much analysis done by others on this idea. I tried expanding on the idea expressed in the character of Anny in Sartre’s work Nausea. She sees herself in terms of her past experiences, and choses not to use her freedom to choose her essence, instead letting the past define her, this is Sartre’s idea of bad faith. In my view, Sartre is attempting to demonstrate that we simply are our present selves, so we should not allow ourselves to be consumed by previous ideas of who we are and by doing so loose our freedom. I wrote it in a slightly modern and more flippant tone then Sartre uses, in order to express my idea of the character of Anny from Nausea, and also in an attempt to modernize Sartre’s tone. As you will see I took a lot of liberties with Sartre’s ideas from his works, but I hope the connections are still clear. Anyways I hope you all enjoy it!
Sorry I just noticed that the protagonist’s name appears as Nadia and as Rose once, that’s just a mistake, her name is meant to be Nadia, so please just ignore that 🙂
Hi all,
Apologies for posting this later than I had anticipated.
I hope you enjoy reading my short story inspired by Simone De Beauvoir (her fiction & non-fiction, specifically The Second Sex and The Ethics of Ambiguity)
Any criticisms would be appreciated!
Sincerely,
Em
Invitation to Modern Times (Draft 1)
“All oppression creates a state of war” -Simone De Beauvoir
Simone De Beauvoir and “friend”