Resistance, Rebellion, and Death
New York : Knopf, 1961.
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NOBEL PRIZE WINNER * Twenty-three political essays that focus on the victims of history, from the fallen maquis of the French Resistance to the casualties of the Cold War.
In the speech he gave upon accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, Albert Camus said that a writer "cannot serve today those who make history; he must serve those who are subject to it."
Resistance, Rebellion and Death displays Camus' rigorous moral intelligence addressing issues that range from colonial warfare in Algeria to the social cancer of capital punishment. But this stirring book is above all a reflection on the problem of freedom, and, as such, belongs in the same tradition as the works that gave Camus his reputation as the conscience of our century: The Stranger , The Rebel , and The Myth of Sisyphus .
In the speech he gave upon accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, Albert Camus said that a writer "cannot serve today those who make history; he must serve those who are subject to it."
Resistance, Rebellion and Death displays Camus' rigorous moral intelligence addressing issues that range from colonial warfare in Algeria to the social cancer of capital punishment. But this stirring book is above all a reflection on the problem of freedom, and, as such, belongs in the same tradition as the works that gave Camus his reputation as the conscience of our century: The Stranger , The Rebel , and The Myth of Sisyphus .
Contents:
Letters to a German friend -- The Liberation of Paris: The blood of freedom ; The night of truth -- The flesh -- Pessimism and tyranny: Pessimism and courage ; Defense of intelligence -- The unbeliever and Christians -- Why Spain? -- Defense of freedom: Bread and freedom ; Homage to an exile -- Algeria: Preface to an Algerian report ; Letter to an Algerian militant ; Appeal for a civilian truce ; Algeria 1958 -- Hungary: Kadar had his day of fear ; Socialism of the gallows -- Reflections on the guillotine -- The artist and his time: The wager of our generation ; Create dangerously.
ISBN:
9780307827852
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Twenty-three essays selected by the author from his Actuelles.
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