Bound to be in the wrong 
Jonathan Rée
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The heroes of Albert Camus’s books can be quite annoying: surly, self-dramatising Hamlets who like to think of themselves as strong, silent loners, wise to human folly. But although they are often arrogant, self-absorbed and predictable, they are also susceptible to the weather, and happy to be upstaged by unseasonable storms, torpid nights, fierce sunlight, or the chance of a swim in the limpid sea.
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From the LRB letters page: [ 17 March 2005 ] Adam Shatz.
Jonathan Rée is a member of the philosopher’s group of the British Humanist Association. He co-edited The Kierkegaard Reader.
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