Open AccessThe configuration of happiness and unhappiness as part of the auditory landscape: the work of Albert Camus
Author(s) -
Sofia Chatzipetrou
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
cahiers erta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2353-8953
pISSN - 2300-4681
DOI - 10.4467/23538953ce.20.023.13547
Subject(s) - happiness , silence , poetics , perception , aesthetics , sociology , philosophy , psychology , epistemology , social psychology , linguistics , poetry
This essay aims to analyze the poetics of the soundscape in Albert Camus’ work, based in the notions of happiness and unhappiness. Our purpose will be to define the characteristics of the symbolism of auditory perception, which are elaborated on the double configuration between happiness and unhappiness. The fact that the symbolic universe of Camus outlines a total sensory experience does no longer need to be demonstrated. Starting from his first lyrical writings to the Notebooks, his writing appeals arouses all the senses. Through a comparative study of examples relating to happiness and unhappiness and while underlining the predominant place of silence in Camus’ aesthetics, we will come off to the conclusion that Camus’s work constitutes a real kind of field recording.