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EXILE AND THE KINGDOM (213 pp.) -Albert Camus-Knopf...
Nobel Prizewinner Albert Camus is a writer without small talk. His themes-life, love, death, man, God, time-are large and universal. He returns to them in this collection of six short stories, but the net effect-after his brilliant novel The Fall-is oddly anticlimactic. The trouble seems to lie in the triumph of symbol over substance. He offers a series of intellectual puzzlers in which the clues are elusive, though the humanistic passion that runs through them is strong and clear, reflecting Camus' vision of art as a moral inquiry into man's fate...
...France's most vocal supporters in North Africa (TIME. June 10), as he walked toward his car with Paris' director-general of police. In court last week 26-year-old Ben Sadok offered a highly literate defense (his favorite authors: Stendhal, Victor Hugo, Holland. Sartre, Camus). He denied that he had any connection with the rebellious Algerian F.L.N., explained that he had decided on murder the day Chekkal joined the French delegation to the United Nations: "I didn't have anything against him personally, or against his opinions, because I am .naturally very tolerant...
...FALL, by Albert Camus. This year's Nobel Prizewinner edging away from existentialism toward religion in an effort to pinpoint the dilemma of modern man. His boozy, sometimes boring hero tries hard to believe that man is the center of all things, yet is more than half persuaded that he is wrapped in original...
Even in success, Tony resolutely leads the simple life. He still lives in his old bachelor apartment ($50 a month) on Manhattan's West Side, drinks milk instead of martinis, dodges nightclubs, wears baggy tweeds. A trifle nearsighted, he reads voraciously (Wolfe, Camus, Fitzgerald), memorized the long, difficult part of Gene in one day. His main relaxation: late night TV and movies...