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Crónicas: 1944-1953
Testigo moral de la Europa destruida por la Segunda Guerra Mundial, las obras de creación y las reflexiones teóricas de Albert Camus (1913-1960) convergen en la indagación de la complejidad y ambigüedad de la condición humana. Testimonio y balance de unos años críticos de la vida pública francesa, los textos recogidos en CRÓNICAS (1944-1953) configuran un retrato inestimable de su postura ante el conflictivo y desganado mundo que lo rodea. «La verdadera desesperanza —escribe Camus en un prefacio cargado de vigencia— proviene de que no sabemos ya nuestras razones para luchar o, precisamente, si debemos luchar. Las páginas siguientes afirman simplemente que, aunque la lucha es difícil, las razones para luchar, al menos, siguen siendo claras.»
272 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published May 13, 2021
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Albert Camus
1,081 books38.3k 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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January 14, 2023Pequeñas piezas ensayísticas, cartas, entrevistas, conferencias, entre otras formas propias de la no ficción componen este libro que reúne los textos de Actualles I y Actualles II.
Escritos que albergan gran parte del pensamiento literario, filosófico y político de Albert Camus, que transitan entre los últimos años de la II GM y la ocupación alemana de Francia, hasta los momentos posteriores a la publicación de su libro El hombre Rebelde.
Los textos producidos entre 1944 y 1948 están dirigidos a evidenciar la compleja realidad francesa durante la II GM, a la vez que recorre las esperanzas, los obstáculos y los principios en juego durante el periodo posterior a la guerra. Una pequeña ventana a la perspectiva camusiana al respecto de los hechos que marcaron la segunda mitad del siglo XX.
En cuanto a los documentos contenidos entre los años 1948 y 1953, encontramos un autor profundamente preocupado al respecto de la libertad y la protección de la dignidad humana, tratando de perfilar reflexiones que develan las contradicciones de los planteamientos esquemáticos proferidos por los bloques ideológicos dominantes durante la llamada Guerra Fría. Junto a lo anterior, es posible conocer las respuestas que preparó Camus ante las diversas críticas realizadas a su obra literaria, en especial luego de la publicación de El hombre Rebelde, en donde encontramos un autor que no escatima en reconocer el valor de su propia obra, reafirmando aquellos principios que motivan y fundamentan gran parte de su producción artística.
Escritos que albergan gran parte del pensamiento literario, filosófico y político de Albert Camus, que transitan entre los últimos años de la II GM y la ocupación alemana de Francia, hasta los momentos posteriores a la publicación de su libro El hombre Rebelde.
Los textos producidos entre 1944 y 1948 están dirigidos a evidenciar la compleja realidad francesa durante la II GM, a la vez que recorre las esperanzas, los obstáculos y los principios en juego durante el periodo posterior a la guerra. Una pequeña ventana a la perspectiva camusiana al respecto de los hechos que marcaron la segunda mitad del siglo XX.
En cuanto a los documentos contenidos entre los años 1948 y 1953, encontramos un autor profundamente preocupado al respecto de la libertad y la protección de la dignidad humana, tratando de perfilar reflexiones que develan las contradicciones de los planteamientos esquemáticos proferidos por los bloques ideológicos dominantes durante la llamada Guerra Fría. Junto a lo anterior, es posible conocer las respuestas que preparó Camus ante las diversas críticas realizadas a su obra literaria, en especial luego de la publicación de El hombre Rebelde, en donde encontramos un autor que no escatima en reconocer el valor de su propia obra, reafirmando aquellos principios que motivan y fundamentan gran parte de su producción artística.
May 23, 2022
La lucidez de Camus sorprende. Quizá me impresionó tanto porque pude interpretar nuestro Chile de hoy a través de sus crónicas que ya tienen 70 años. Un texto que hace recordar el por qué la muerte temprana de este pensador puede ser tildada de tragedia. Que pena.....
August 19, 2024
Lo quiero mucho por ser tan autocrítico y dar cátedra de elocuencia para callarle la boca a sus enemigos 🤠 Nos hace falta leerlo en estos tiempos que la comunicación es instantánea y carente de contenido.
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