Word: camus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nobel Prize to Camus...
William Golding, English novelist, writes like a French existentialist who has wandered into the Manhattan offices of True magazine. The French practitioners of the art of "the extreme situation" lean to plagues (Albert Camus) or politics and perversion (Jean-Paul Sartre). A Cornishman and sometime naval officer. Author Golding of course sends his existential hero to sea. Aboard a British destroyer in mid-Atlantic, Christopher Martin had just given the order "Hard a-starboard'' ("the right bloody order," too, he later reflects) when a torpedo blew him clear off the bridge. He survives only to be engaged...
...mystical crucifixion reverie while himself regaining his lost calling. Loosely plotted but tautly written, the book relies finally on devices that are more pious than imaginative. By protesting his faith too much, Novelist Stolpe has made his fictional foray into original sin less gripping than that of, say, Albert Camus, a professed atheist, whose The Fall (TIME, Feb. 18) leaves the most complacently irreligious reader under a conviction of sin and the dread need to examine the state of his own soul...
...disorder of appearance, along with the tattered clothing and an accompanying look of explosive distraction, or sometimes protracted introspection, build up to the effect aimed at--an appearance of depravity. Cantabrigians under the spell of Continentalism would join the desperate people in Sartre's stories and the creatures of Camus in their state of elevated wretchedness--a vilifying yet inexpensive estrangement that sets them off from their humdrum fellows. They have in their minds' eye the limbo of clandestine disbelief they think is occupied by post-war, or just post-nineteenth century, European intellectual degenerates. Needless to say, they fall...
...Arcy traced the movement through the "extravagant language of the Germans, Nietzsche, Jaspers, and Heidegger and the more lucid French prose of Sartre and Camus. Meanwhile, Anglo-Saxon philosophy, intent upon 'linguistics,' fiddled while Rome burned...