frlit1-9, Exercise 2: Sartre, Beauvoir and Camus

Model answer:

Sartre: La Nausee or L'Etre et le neant; existence precedes essence, so individuals are free and responsible, and writers should be committed.
Beauvoir: Le Deuxieme Sexe (1949); society shapes the roles of women, and one is not born but becomes a woman.
Camus: L'Etranger or La Peste; the absurd, the gap between our need for meaning and a silent world, answered by revolt and lucidity. Camus differed from the others because he rejected the label existentialist and quarrelled publicly with Sartre in 1952.

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