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Sisyphusisme soon proved to be cold stoic comfort to pit against the Wehrmacht and Gestapomen of World War II. Confronted with the Hitler terror, Camus cried "What values did we have . . . which we could oppose to his negation? None." In The Plague (1947), a parable of the Resistance couched in terms of a city under sentence of bubonic death, Camus voiced his social ethic: "All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us . . . not to join forces with the pestilences." In The Rebel (1952), Camus turned...
...Niagara of Faith. Neither classical restraint nor stoic endurance can resolve the problem of evil to which Camus has always been acutely sensitive. In his latest book, The Fall, the nameless narrator plumbs the depths of his own and, in effect, all men's pride and self-love. Camus seems to abandon his view of man as a Rousseauistic innocent trapped in the vise of the human condition, and almost adopts the metaphysics of original sin. The irony is that sin without God to redeem it is just as unbearable as a world without God to explain...
...Love Possessed ends on a stoic note. Julius Penrose's statement that it takes real courage, intelligence, and discretion to carry on despite the recognition of one's sins, one's loss of honor and selfesteem, would appear to express the author's view...
...boiled mistresses, and their poems tell of virtually the only battle they ever fought-the war between the sexes. They knew or sensed that their culture was on its long day's journey into night-and suggested mostly pleasure to ease the journey. But they were not without stoic courage, and Catullus could spurn Caesar with an epigram...
...hermetic philosophies, but an occultist . . . Rather tall, well built, broad-shouldered, heavy and slow in his movements, he might have been taken for a descendant of the American Indian family . . . Perhaps the closest description I can give of him at the outset of our acquaintance is that of a Stoic dragging his tomb about with...