Can you seperate the author and their work? I have been thinking about reading Satre but I'm a little disappointed to find out how much of a dick he was, he pretty much is supposed to have had his existentialist compadre Simone de beauvoir procuring young women for him at one point, which make me wonder about the integrity of each and their works.
I've also read a lot of Camus and know that he was kind of Satre's opponent for a bit, I think he was right to call bullshit on Satre's story writing about random shootings and absurdity when Satre was doing stuff like joining and supporting the communist party at the same time.
I read Koestler before discovering he was a rapist and mysogynist but didnt finish the last one I was reading and got rid of the books, selling some of them for good money because they were rare but I just didnt want them in the house after I heard about his private life.
Anyone else experience this kind of revulsion when the conduct of an author is so badly off the mark from what their works suggest?
I've also read a lot of Camus and know that he was kind of Satre's opponent for a bit, I think he was right to call bullshit on Satre's story writing about random shootings and absurdity when Satre was doing stuff like joining and supporting the communist party at the same time.
I read Koestler before discovering he was a rapist and mysogynist but didnt finish the last one I was reading and got rid of the books, selling some of them for good money because they were rare but I just didnt want them in the house after I heard about his private life.
Anyone else experience this kind of revulsion when the conduct of an author is so badly off the mark from what their works suggest?