Albert Camus posts
Inc. Magazine It's the question anyone working to achieve a difficult goal has to answer.
105 months ago
The Economist Written as an allegory for life in occupied Paris, Albert Camus’s novel is not an up-close portrait of evil or domination. Instead it acts a guide to the victimhood and despondency of an uncontrollable crisis
107 months ago
The New York Times - Theater There's a lot to tackle in“The Strangest," and the show stumbles honorably.
108 months ago
The Economist Our quote of the day is from French author and philosopher Albert Camus
112 months ago
The Economist History finds Camus on the right side of so many of the great moral issues of the 20th century. He joined the French resistance to combat Nazism. He campaigned against the death penalty. “L'Homme Révolté” (“The Rebel”), his anti-totalitaria
Read more ... n work, was remarkably perceptive about the evils of Stalinism
112 months ago
The Economist Albert Camus is often found on the right side of many of the 20th century's great moral issues: he joined the French resistance to Nazism, campaigned against the death penalty, and wrote perceptively about the evils of Stalinism. He was born on this
Read more ... day in 1913
125 months ago
Los Angeles Times Entertainment Fargo turning to Albert Camus makes perfect sense
'Fargo' recap: 'Know thyself'
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In French philosopher Albert Camus' essay "The Myth of Sisyphus," from which this week's episode of "Fargo" takes its name, he speaks at length about his…
125 months ago
NPR The most talked-about novel written in French recently is not by a Frenchman, but by an Algerian, newspaper editor Kamel Daoud. It's called "The Meursault Investigation," and it's a response to the most famous novel ever written by a French Algerian:
Read more ... "The Stranger,"by Albert Camus.
Novelist Kamel Daoud, Finding Dignity In The Absurd
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His new novel, "The Meursault Investigation," reworks Albert Camus' "The Stranger" from the point of view of the murdered Arab's brother. He says Camus' vision of the absurd gave him back his dignity
127 months ago
NPR Camus' novel focused on a Frenchman's random killing of an Arab in Algeria, and the absurd trial that follows. Daoud's book flips the story, granting Camus' anonymous victim a name and personality, depicting the trial as anti-colonial restitution, an
Read more ... d showing how the man's loss impacts his family for decades.
129 months ago
The New Yorker An excerpt from Kamel Daoud’s latest novel.
“Musa”
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The brother of the Arab murdered in Albert Camus’s “The Stranger” tells his story.
132 months ago
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