Word: camus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
France's Algiers-born Albert Camus (The Stranger, The Plague, The Fall) was a man of the theater long before he turned novelist. As a poor, radical student in 1934, he started Algeria's only theater, for which he wrote, acted, directed. To get experience, he used to play one-night stands all over North Africa, finally wrote three dramas between 1944 and 1949. Fellow actors remember him as pale, sickly, with "an extraordinary radiance." Last week the Camus radiance was back onstage, in one of the year's most exciting theatrical events: the opening in Paris...
...such thing as virtue." The Possessed was partly written to illuminate that point. The book swept from Russia's liberals, who reveled in sentimental idealism, straight to the awful result: the young nihilists of the 1870s, who believed that terrorism was justified as a means to political reform. Camus read the book at 20 ("A soul-shaking experience"). Like Dostoevsky, Camus broods about the ailment of freedom without God, about political mass murder in the name of life and the future. Although he has been unable to accept Dostoevsky's remedy (return to God and the soil...
...political spectrum from T. S. Eliot and E. M. Forster to Bertrand Russell and J. B. Priestley, wired the Soviet Writers' Union not to dishonor the great Russian literary tradition by "victimizing a writer revered by the entire civilized world." In Paris, François Mauriac, Albert Camus and Jules Romains expressed their disgust. The Authors League of America cabled that the U.S. writers most popular in Russia were "those who interpreted life in America most critically." and demanded that Pasternak have the right to express himself with the same "freedom and honesty...
When the church fails to raise up prophets, McCord feels, the world raises them up. Who are such secular prophets? Dostoevsky, in Crime and Punishment (but not Tolstoy-"there was too much sweetness and light about him"). Also Novelist Albert Camus, especially in his latest book, The Fall ("I think Camus is on a pilgrimage and he hasn't arrived"). Oddly, Theologian McCord also includes Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. If anyone criticizes such literary judgments, McCord has an answer: "I think the first thing the Lord requires of us is honesty. He requires you to be honest before...
...first page resembles Proust--what with tea-rooms, plumcakes, and the paste of sentiment. By page two, the narration switches to Gide's School of Sensitive Young Man Smelling Pressed Flower and Remembering Bath Tub Ring. There are three pages of Camus. And the rest of "The Bystander" slinks along in the ironic tradition of Colette and Francoise Sagan...