Word: camus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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EXILE AND THE KINGDOM (213 pp.) -Albert Camus-Knopf...
...France's most vocal supporters in North Africa (TIME. June 10), as he walked toward his car with Paris' director-general of police. In court last week 26-year-old Ben Sadok offered a highly literate defense (his favorite authors: Stendhal, Victor Hugo, Holland. Sartre, Camus). He denied that he had any connection with the rebellious Algerian F.L.N., explained that he had decided on murder the day Chekkal joined the French delegation to the United Nations: "I didn't have anything against him personally, or against his opinions, because I am .naturally very tolerant...
...FALL, by Albert Camus. This year's Nobel Prizewinner edging away from existentialism toward religion in an effort to pinpoint the dilemma of modern man. His boozy, sometimes boring hero tries hard to believe that man is the center of all things, yet is more than half persuaded that he is wrapped in original...
Even in success, Tony resolutely leads the simple life. He still lives in his old bachelor apartment ($50 a month) on Manhattan's West Side, drinks milk instead of martinis, dodges nightclubs, wears baggy tweeds. A trifle nearsighted, he reads voraciously (Wolfe, Camus, Fitzgerald), memorized the long, difficult part of Gene in one day. His main relaxation: late night TV and movies...
Last week, despite the protests of writers from all over the world, including T. S. Eliot, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus and even French Communist Poet Louis Aragon,* the puppet dictatorship of Janos Kadar sentenced Tibor Dery to nine years in prison for his revolutionary activities. Sentenced along with him were three other famed members of the Writers' Union: Playwright Gyula Hay, Journalist Tibor Tardos, Poet Zoltan Zelk, who wrote in a widely quoted poem...