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...Albert Camus there were always two tyrants: history and the universe. The winner of the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature found the deck stacked against contemporarty man, and then demanded that man fight for his freedom...
...Myth of Sisyphus he confronted a still greater enemy: the universe itself. "In a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger." Yet named man, he said, must not abandon the struggle against the irrational and pitiless place that he inhabits. Camus rejected both the Leap of Faith, which begs the question, and the suicide which follows logically from despair. The hero of his existential battle gets one lucid glimpse of the finality of his situation, realizes that he is an incongruity in the universe, and then rebels against it with all his being...
...Camus posed the most difficult of all questions, slavery, and offered the most difficult of all answers, rebellion. Life was meaningless without two things--its senseless suffering, and the honorable facing of suffering...
...most normal reaction to such words is one of passive administration, and this is what is most to be feared. For Camus himself delivers a mandate of direct and immediate response: we must live the demands of the revolt he describes. In this sense he acted as the conscience of the times...
Black Orpheus (French). Winner of the 1959 Grand Prix at Cannes, this wildly beautiful adaptation of the old legend is made new and vital by an unknown cast, the brilliant direction of Marcel Camus and a Brazilian tropical background...