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...Camus had rocketed into the Parisian literary firmament and the existential orbit of Jean-Paul Sartre. During the German occupation Camus fired the morale of the underground with eloquent pieces in his clandestine Combat. After the war he personified, with Sartre, the "engaged" writer, an active intellectual always ready to slide down the bell rope of the ivory tower and answer the fire alarms of left-wing social and economic causes. The two friends split irrevocably in 1952 over Communist ideology, with Camus holding that ends never justify means ("For a faraway city of which I am not sure...
...task of modern man as filling the void left by the 19th century's loss of faith. He himself has recently retreated to the religion of art, embracing the Nietzschean view that "we have art in order not to die of the truth." At a fellow-traveling distance, Jean-Paul Sartre consoles himself with the shifting certitudes of Communism. Albert Camus has too lucid a mind and too scrupulous a moral conscience to opt for such relatively easy solutions. With each successive book, he seems to be sweeping closer to a Niagara of faith, albeit he paddles strenuously upstream...
William Golding, English novelist, writes like a French existentialist who has wandered into the Manhattan offices of True magazine. The French practitioners of the art of "the extreme situation" lean to plagues (Albert Camus) or politics and perversion (Jean-Paul Sartre). A Cornishman and sometime naval officer. Author Golding of course sends his existential hero to sea. Aboard a British destroyer in mid-Atlantic, Christopher Martin had just given the order "Hard a-starboard'' ("the right bloody order," too, he later reflects) when a torpedo blew him clear off the bridge. He survives only to be engaged...
...appeal trial brought a deluge of protests and pleas for clemency from world liberals and Marxists, including British Philosopher Bertrand Russell, Scientist Julian Huxley, Peru's President Manuel Prado, Hungarian Writer Paul Igno-tus, French ex-Fellow Traveler Jean-Paul Sartre, as well as from such Communists as Artist Pablo Picasso and Poet Louis Aragon (who was later outraged to learn that the capitalist press knew of his appeal). Seemingly impressed, the Kadar regime said last week that, "pending re-examination of the case," it had "suspended" the death sentences of Intellectuals Obersovszky and Gali. But three days later...
...provinces, took the resignations of eight staff members, and appointed as new editor a party hack who had run the newspaper during the years Gomulka was in jail. A magazine was confiscated, and its editor fired, when it reprinted an angry article on Stalinism by French ex-Fellow Traveler Jean-Paul Sartre. An iron censorship was imposed on the bright reformist weeklies. Said one ex-editor: "I cannot follow Gomulka on this. But I cannot fight him, either...