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...Eliade, "without any theological implications, and they accept it here." >NATHAN SCOTT, 40, Episcopalian, professor of theology and literature. A Detroit Negro educated at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, Scott did a stint of teaching at Howard before going to Chicago in 1955. His books include studies on Camus and Beckett...
...Auden, Another Time, The Orators. Charles Baudelaire, Oeuvres Posthumes. John Betjeman, Selected Poems. Andre Breton, Nadja. Albert Camus, L'Etrcmger, La Peste. Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Voyage au Bout
Against Interpretation has everything wrong with it. With no effort at all one can find inaccurate epithets (Camus' language is "stately ... an inexhaustible self-perpetuating oratory); mixed metaphors ("Saint Genet is a cancer of a book, grotesquely vebose, its cargo of brilliant ideas borne aloft by a tone of viscous soleminity and by ghastly repetitiveness"); solemn statements of the obvious ("The truth is, some works of theater may be judged primarily as of works of literature, others and attempts to be "in" ("those four wonderful Floppy Raggedy Andy dolls, the Beatles...
Tourists rarely see either the intellectual ferment or the burgeoning industry of the East-the steam-wreathed polyethylene plant at Rumanian Ploesti; the scorching debate over Camus at Budapest's Hungaria Restaurant; the clanking Skoda automobile factory outside Prague; the student jazz joint in Warsaw where frugging and free verse give the lie to socialist realism. This is also the domain of the Western businessman, of the 500 Western firms which are engaged in cooperative ventures worth $800 million in Eastern Europe, and which will do many times that amount of business in the years ahead...
...existential isolation of Frantz's attic and the mundane world below. Frantz, to escape his war-time guilt, has tried to assume guilt for all. His rejection of ends-justifies-means ("evil was our only material... Good was the final product. Result: the good turned bad") is almost a Camus-esque rejection of political involvement. But when the father, below, says "it is easy to assume responsibility for everything when you do nothing," Sartre the Marxist repudiates this kind of pure existentialism...