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«"Changer la vie, oui, mais non le monde, dont je faisais ma divinité." Ce n'est pas par lâcheté, ni par indifférence que Camus s'abstient de communier dans l'amour universel et répugne aux ferveurs collectives, mais par une "folie d'équité". À ceux qui cherchent un sens à la vie, Camus répond qu'on ne sort pas du ciel qui nous contient. À ceux qui se désolent de l'absurde, Camus raconte que le monde est beau et que cela suffit à remplir le cœur d'un homme. À ceux qui souhaitent la tyrannie parce que l'Homme n'est pas à la hauteur du bien qu'on lui veut, Camus dit qu'il faut aimer les hommes avant les idées. Aux partisans de la haine, il décrit la gratitude. Aux indignés et aux sectateurs d'un "autre monde possible" qui s'endorment, sereins, sur l'oreiller des contestations incontestables, Camus enseigne que la véritable exigence est le contraire de la radicalité. Sa solitude n'est jamais celle du misanthrope. Son combat n'est pas celui du révolutionnaire. À l'inverse de ceux dont le goût de l'absolu s'épanouit dans l'inefficacité pratique, les héros de Camus baissent rarement les bras dans une bataille qu'ils savent sinon perdue d'avance, du moins toujours à recommencer. Car enfin, c'est dans la révolte elle-même que Camus cherche "l'intransigeance exténuante de la mesure", c'est par elle qu'il veut empêcher que le monde ne se défasse, et c'est au nom du courage qu'il se méfie des enragés. Albert Camus soigne le désespoir par le sentiment qu'il n'est pas nécessaire d'espérer pour entreprendre ; c'est le seul homme normal que je connaisse.»
(Raphaël Enthoven)
(Raphaël Enthoven)
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First published May 1, 2002
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About the author
Albert Camus
1,075 books37.7k followersWorks, such as the novels
The Stranger
(1942) and
The Plague
(1947), of Algerian-born French writer and philosopher Albert Camus concern the absurdity of the human condition; he won the Nobel Prize of 1957 for literature.
Origin and his experiences of this representative of non-metropolitan literature in the 1930s dominated influences in his thought and work.
He also adapted plays of Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Lope de Vega, Dino Buzzati, and Requiem for a Nun of William Faulkner. One may trace his enjoyment of the theater back to his membership in l'Equipe, an Algerian group, whose "collective creation" Révolte dans les Asturies (1934) was banned for political reasons.
Of semi-proletarian parents, early attached to intellectual circles of strongly revolutionary tendencies, with a deep interest, he came at the age of 25 years in 1938; only chance prevented him from pursuing a university career in that field. The man and the times met: Camus joined the resistance movement during the occupation and after the liberation served as a columnist for the newspaper Combat.
The essay Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus), 1942, expounds notion of acceptance of the absurd of Camus with "the total absence of hope, which has nothing to do with despair, a continual refusal, which must not be confused with renouncement - and a conscious dissatisfaction."
Meursault, central character of L'Étranger (The Stranger), 1942, illustrates much of this essay: man as the nauseated victim of the absurd orthodoxy of habit, later - when the young killer faces execution - tempted by despair, hope, and salvation.
Besides his fiction and essays, Camus very actively produced plays in the theater (e.g., Caligula, 1944).
The time demanded his response, chiefly in his activities, but in 1947, Camus retired from political journalism.
Doctor Rieux of La Peste (The Plague), 1947, who tirelessly attends the plague-stricken citizens of Oran, enacts the revolt against a world of the absurd and of injustice, and confirms words: "We refuse to despair of mankind. Without having the unreasonable ambition to save men, we still want to serve them."
People also well know La Chute (The Fall), work of Camus in 1956.
Camus authored L'Exil et le royaume (Exile and the Kingdom) in 1957. His austere search for moral order found its aesthetic correlative in the classicism of his art. He styled of great purity, intense concentration, and rationality.
Camus died at the age of 46 years in a car accident near Sens in le Grand Fossard in the small town of Villeblevin.
Chinese 阿尔贝·加缪
Origin and his experiences of this representative of non-metropolitan literature in the 1930s dominated influences in his thought and work.
He also adapted plays of Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Lope de Vega, Dino Buzzati, and Requiem for a Nun of William Faulkner. One may trace his enjoyment of the theater back to his membership in l'Equipe, an Algerian group, whose "collective creation" Révolte dans les Asturies (1934) was banned for political reasons.
Of semi-proletarian parents, early attached to intellectual circles of strongly revolutionary tendencies, with a deep interest, he came at the age of 25 years in 1938; only chance prevented him from pursuing a university career in that field. The man and the times met: Camus joined the resistance movement during the occupation and after the liberation served as a columnist for the newspaper Combat.
The essay Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus), 1942, expounds notion of acceptance of the absurd of Camus with "the total absence of hope, which has nothing to do with despair, a continual refusal, which must not be confused with renouncement - and a conscious dissatisfaction."
Meursault, central character of L'Étranger (The Stranger), 1942, illustrates much of this essay: man as the nauseated victim of the absurd orthodoxy of habit, later - when the young killer faces execution - tempted by despair, hope, and salvation.
Besides his fiction and essays, Camus very actively produced plays in the theater (e.g., Caligula, 1944).
The time demanded his response, chiefly in his activities, but in 1947, Camus retired from political journalism.
Doctor Rieux of La Peste (The Plague), 1947, who tirelessly attends the plague-stricken citizens of Oran, enacts the revolt against a world of the absurd and of injustice, and confirms words: "We refuse to despair of mankind. Without having the unreasonable ambition to save men, we still want to serve them."
People also well know La Chute (The Fall), work of Camus in 1956.
Camus authored L'Exil et le royaume (Exile and the Kingdom) in 1957. His austere search for moral order found its aesthetic correlative in the classicism of his art. He styled of great purity, intense concentration, and rationality.
Camus died at the age of 46 years in a car accident near Sens in le Grand Fossard in the small town of Villeblevin.
Chinese 阿尔贝·加缪
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February 11, 2017
Puisque cette édition est une des oeuvres complètes, disons tout de suite qu'un jugement global sur le contenu est dénoué de sens. Il est cépendant agréable d'avoir tout Camus en un seul volume: c'est un auteur à vous accompagner toute la vie, et relire quelque chose de lui qu'on connaît déjà est tout aussi profitable qu'aller à la découverte d'une chose qu'on ne connaût pas encore, juste en feuilletant.
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