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...happy by oneself." Grand abandoned his perfect sentence and Father Paneloux his religious fatalism. It was not a question of heroism; people hardly had enough freedom of choice to be heroic. They simply decided to do what they could, even if their resistance was absurd. And perhaps, suggests Camus, to continue upholding one's human obligations when there seems the least possibility of fulfilling them is, if not heroism, the best...
...revealing critical remark about Kafka was made by French Novelist Albert Camus: "It is the fate and perhaps the greatness of this work to offer us everything and to confirm nothing...
...space: a place to be as highbrow as they like, to talk to their own kind and never mind being intelligible to the uninitiated. The result has been sometimes stuffy, oftentimes overreaching, but usually stimulating. Such first-rate writers and critics as Arthur Koestler, Ignazio Silone, George Orwell, Albert Camus, Andre Gide and Edmund Wilson have sold Partisan Review articles for a token $2 a page. Poets T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Karl Shapiro and Robert Lowell were paid $3 a page. Thanks to Publisher-to-be Dowling, Partisan Review will now offer 2½? a word for prose...
...Mostly by Dr. Walter Lowrie and the University of Minnesota's late Professor David F. Swenson. * Modern "existentialists," like Sartre and Camus, have kidnapped Kierkegaard's "absurdity," stripped it of all religious significance, and beaten it into insensibility, using it merely as a dummy to dramatize what they consider the futility of any way of life...
...quite a trick to write of life & death, as Camus does, in terms of an almost total social and moral vacuum. He may get philosophical satisfaction from it. Most readers will call it philosophic doodling...