Word: camus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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RESISTANCE, REBELLION, AND DEATH (272 pp.)-Albert Camus-Knopf...
...sermons, except those by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, usually sell about as well as a Swahili grammar. But Alfred A. Knopf has published such a collection, the difference being that the sermons deal with the theology of politics, and were composed with aphoristic brilliance by the late Albert Camus. The author called them actuelles, or occasional pieces, and he thought as highly of them as he did of his novels, plays and philosophical essays. He may well have been right...
...Question to Christians. Camus appears in this collection in all his familiar and significant roles. He appears, in the first place, as a French Algerian who inherited a built-in controversy more bitter at his death last year than it was at his birth 48 years ago. His views on the desperate issue are included in this volume, but his plan for a federation of settlements along communal lines seems today as remote from realization as his other proposal -mutual forgiveness between the fratricidal factions...
...imagination centers. It is the quiet, and some would say merciful, side effect of leprosy-the disappearance of sensation, of the power to feel even pain-which haunts Greene, and which he makes the basis of a novel that would be called existentialist, in the manner of Camus' The Plague, if it were not also Christian...
Tousle-haired, wild-eyed, glowing with his new7 mission and blackened by the sun of Brazil, Camus toasted his friends in the nation's new capital city just before he left. "How I love you," he cried between dollops of Scotch. "Here in Brazil there is no hate, only love. Here we are all brothers." Just then, Brasilia's power failed, and waiters made their way through the dark to light candles. For some reason, Marcel Camus did not shoot the scene...