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...introduced Joey Gallo (and hundreds of others) to authors like Camus and Sartre when I was education supervisor at Attica state prison. Like Joan Hackett and Jerry Orbach I too can believe that "something happened to him" when he "read and studied." For lack of a better term we called it part of the "rehabilitation" program...
...find out that maybe he had been a wild kind of nut before he went to prison, but something had happened to him inside. He'd done nothing but read there, and it was startling to talk with him." Marta adds: "When he asked me whether I preferred Camus or Sartre, I almost fell into a plate of spaghetti...
...this novel, and within it alone, that the dispute between the characters centered on the question whether or not to publish a report on Stalin's labor camps. In viewing this novel as a roman a clef, there has been a temptation in certain quarters to identify Henri with Camus and Dubreuilh with Sartre. But as Simone de Beauvoir, the author of the novel, has clearly stated in her autobiography La Force des Choses: "Henri, whatever people may have said about him is not Camus: not at all... The identification of Sartre with Dubreuilh is not less distorted... The plot...
...fact the break between Sartre and Camus came in 1952 when Sartre's Les Temps Modernes published a savage, withering review by Francis Jeanson of Camus's L'Homme Revolte...
...only be: Les Malgache avant le Kirghize, but also--more importantly--that the suffering inflicted upon the Kirghizes in the Soviet Union should not be used to justify those inflicted on the Malgaches in the French Empire. Herein lies the thrust of his "unsparing" and Olympian demolition of Camus who adopted a partisan Cold War attitude on these problems: In support of the absolute right to liberation of the Hungarians whilst denying such a right to the Algerians. Camus, in any event, has no need for illiterate defenders who, lacking his considerable abilities, still crudely soldier on in the cause...