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...ethic, people will still work to live, but fewer will live only to work. As Albert Camus put it: "Without work all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies." It will be a long while, if ever, before men figure out ways to make the work of, say, a punch-press operator or a file clerk soul-enriching. While waiting for that millennium-which may require entirely new forms of work -bosses who expect loyalty from their employees should try to satisfy their demands for more freedom, more feeling of participation and personal responsibility...
...ALBERT CAMUS 192 pages. Knopf...
...when he was 25, Albert Camus scrapped this novel and began writing The Stranger, one of the half-dozen most celebrated first novels of the century. Last year, a decade after he was killed in an automobile crash, his widow allowed this forerunner to be published in France, and it has now been admirably translated into English by Richard Howard...
With open trunks of manuscripts yawning around the publishing world, what widows do with material that writers originally considered unpublishable is an increasingly controversial matter. In this case Mme. Camus was obviously right. The dogged clumsiness of the construction and some superfluous scenes show a beginner hard at work. But the ability to describe the world as it might have been seen by an angel on his first visit shows that Camus was in some respects already near the height of his powers...
Female characters were never Camus's strong point, but at this early stage his writing about them is embarrassing...