Word: camus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...begin and end with this cartoon of frothing male vituperation does nothing to reveal how a Strindberg play can still electrify an audience in 1985, or to explain why writers as different as Kafka and Camus, Thomas Mann and Jean-Paul Sartre have read Strindberg with admiration bordering on reverence...
...seemed that Montaigne threw his mantel across his shoulders and left the room, followed by Pascal delicately lifting the skirt of his vestments; Hazlitt said he had a previous engagement at the five courts, Lamb muttered something about his sister not being well. Orwell stubbed out his cigarette. Camus buckled the belt of his trenchcoat, and they were all gone...
Entrants in this dense and unprecedented volume range from the heroic to the villainous, from Albert Camus to Lee Harvey Oswald. Mallon welcomes them all to his vast storehouse. Some neighbors provide deep ironic contrasts: Anne Frank tells her diary, "I twist my heart . . . so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would like so to be." Four pages later a Nazi architect bitterly considers himself in the third person: "Hitler . . . would have been keenly delighted by the role Albert Speer...
...literary critic George Neveaux wrote, "The entire theatre of an era came out of the womb of that play, Six Characters." Pirandello's revolution in form and content profoundly influenced the works of Sartre, Anouilh, Genet, Camus, Ionesco, Beckett, and many other playwrights. Pirandello's dramaturgy contributed significantly to this new form of theatre--his acceptance of the stage for what it was, his knowledge that it did not need to be a true-to-life copy of the real thing. He saw the stage as a place of magic and illusion...
Though matters racial preoccupy the diarist, Notebooks also displays Fugard in relaxed moods: exalting the clean wind and open sea, excitedly reading Camus, Gogol and works of Zen. But the real strength of his personal record is its collection of stories overheard, incidents chanced upon, sorrows glimpsed by accident-the random scraps out of which Fugard fashioned his plays. As he listens to a vagrant's life story, accompanies a friend to court, watches two blacks carrying a wooden box through the night, Fugard registers and captures the keening images that are the very stuff of vibrant theater...