Word: algerias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LYRICAL AND CRITICAL ESSAYS, by Albert Camus. Camus was a sensualist and humanist who found inspiration on the sun-soaked shores of his native Algeria. His great poetic perception flavors this new collection of early essays, which are surprisingly mystical and serene...
...noted as the intellectual Parisian humanist. He strove with a stoiclucidity to reaffirm man's nobility in a warring age that seemed to defy that nobility. Actually, he was also a sensualist, a "Black Romantic" who found ecstatic revelations on the sun-soaked shores of his native Algeria. This poetic sensualism flavors Lyrical and Critical Essays, now collected and published for the first time in English...
...next two groups of essays, Nuptials (1938) and Summer (1954), Camus' ideas about how to combat life's absurdities deepen as he faces the dark despondency he finds in Europe. Like a fallen angel, he keeps looking homeward for the revitalizing sensual graces of Algeria. And in these journeys are intimations of the ideas in his future writings. In the heavy stone city of Oran, he finds a refreshing boredom in the ordinary down-to-earth commercialism that appears as the setting for his later novel, The Plague. Among the flowers and ruins at Tipasa, Camus discovers that...
...settles on his recollections of an old acquaintance, Hymen Lustgarten, a former Marxist from New Jersey who has passed through all the radical ideological incarnations of the '30s. Lustgarten loses at everything, including the postwar European black market and the Laundromat business in Algeria. But as Bellow reveals in a balance of satire and compassion, Lustgarten's failures brim with life juices while Mosby's successes are empty and dry. "Having disposed of all things human," Bellow concludes, "he should have encountered God . . . But having so disposed, what God was there to encounter...
...army's performance in the Czech invasion impressed Western observers as "brilliant" and "faultless"; in the Mediterranean, with ready access to any war zones in the Mid-East, the Soviets have recently established a fleet of at least 50 ships and have secured use of an excellent port in Algeria. NATO forces, on the other hand, are understaffed even by pre-invasion levels, and the U.S. Sixth Fleet, which has been weakened by sending reinforcements to the fleet off Vietnam, will probably lose its home ports in Spain within the next year...