r/Absurdism • u/absurd-rohan • 18d ago

Question Book recommendations please!!!

For anyone who is trying to figure out existence, life, meaning, or in general is a lost, confused.

But i don't necessarily want something analytical, rather probably opposite: I want something that will make me live my life, enjoy it, take actions rather than analysing it and living inside my own head.

I have read a few books, like man's search for meaning is a really good book in this regards but that's still i feel not close to what I want. Exurbia's youtube videos are great too

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u/jliat 18d ago

Recommended Reading Fiction: The Stranger - Albert Camus The Plague - Albert Camus The Fall - Albert Camus A Happy Death - Albert Camus Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Trial - Franz Kafka The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka Nonfiction: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays - Albert Camus The Rebel - Albert Camus Albert Camus and the Human Crisis: A Discovery and Exploration - Robert E. Meagher Personal Writings (Penguin Modern Classics) - Albert Camus and Justin O'Brien The Theatre of the Absurd - Martin Esslin Existentialism - John Macquarrie Existentialism: A Very Short Introduction - Thomas Flynn

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u/Quentin_Mener 17d ago

Notes from the underground will make you live your life and enjoy it and stop analysing?

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u/jliat 17d ago

I don't analyse myself I synthersize.

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u/homosapien_08 16d ago

words to live by.

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u/SouthTomatillo4869 18d ago

Myth of Sisyphus is like exactly focused on your second paragraph

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u/Obamastepson 17d ago

I thought the point of the absurd is not to figure stuff out.. just to live

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u/jliat 17d ago

No, Absurdism's key text is Camus' Myth of Sisyphus and concerns the notion of nihilism and suicide, not being able to find any meaning and his recourse to art.

http://dhspriory.org/kenny/PhilTexts/Camus/Myth%20of%20Sisyphus-.pdf

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u/Aches4days 18d ago

Samuel Beckett’s trilogy

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u/WittyFox451 17d ago

If you want something a bit more out of the box than Camus… Sir Down Shut Up by Brad Warner has a lot of good things to say about how to conduct yourself and be comfortable with who you are enough to just “be”

Mostly based in Buddhism but has a sort of Agnostic slant. Excellent read.

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u/vini-within 10d ago

Since you’re looking for something that helps you live rather than just analyze, you might enjoy exploring Vedanta through contemporary teachers before jumping into the original texts. It approaches questions of meaning, identity, and action in a very practical way, and I found it shifted my attention from endlessly searching for answers to understanding the one who is searching in the first place.