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NOTEBOOKS 1935-1942 by Albert Camus. 224 pages. Knopf...
...higher spiritual values. To Friedrich Nietzsche, the Christian teaching that good men would receive their reward from God in an eternity of happiness in heaven tended to destroy man's will to power, and exalted the meek and humble losers of life instead of world-conquering supermen. Albert Camus searched Christian theology in vain for the fulfillment of man's fate, found more satisfactory standards in his own tragic ponderings on human responsibility and solidarity...
...that recent history-world wars and totalitarianism-has provided evidence on his side of the case, De Sade has been enjoying a revival. He has fascinated such unsadistic modern writers as Albert Camus, Edmund Wilson, Simone de Beauvoir, and Roman Catholic Historian Christopher Dawson...
Della Terza, a critic of modern Italian literature, has analyzed the work of contemporary French writers, including Gide, Sartre, and Camus, as well as that of Italian authors. Della Terza taught Italian literature at the University of Pisa, at lycees in Paris, and at the University of Toulouse before he joined the U.C.L.A. faculty...
...Torture of Joan of Arc, and it is a symptom of their terrible sense of guilt, which consumes them as the flames consume the roach. A preoccupation with guilt is nothing new for modern French novelists, but Jean Cau. 37, examines the meaning of guilt more exhaustively than even Camus or Sartre-though not always with their clarity. A controversial journalist as well as a novelist and playwright, Cau won the 1961 Prix Goncourt for The Mercy...