Arts & Letters Daily search results for “camus” (32)
2013-08-14 | Across the Middle East, the old revolutionary ideas and simplifying dogmas crumble. It's a moment for Albert Camus more »
2012-08-16 | Camus looked like a movie star, all laid-back cool. Sartre looked like a gargoyle. Enter a woman named Wanda more »
2019-12-07 | The death of Camus. Did the KGB rig his car to make it crash at high speed? more »
2013-04-13 | The question of revolutionary violence was one of the most fateful of the 20th century. Many got it wrong. Camus got it right more »
2010-01-01 | For collaborators, life in Vichy Paris was sweet. Even for the likes of Sartre, Camus, and Cocteau it was hardly unlivable more »
2018-11-15 | How did Sartre come to embrace Marxism? The tale involves his friendship with Camus, and his work at a clandestine newspaper more »
2020-03-13 | In 1948, Camus discovered Simone Weil’s manuscripts. They revolutionized not only his sense of suffering but his sense of self more »
2017-01-28 | Camus and Sartre smoked together, womanized together, talked shop. Newspapers covered their every move. They were inseparable. Then Sartre read The Rebel more »
2011-01-01 | Moliere, the shape-shifter extraordinaire of the 17th century, became in time a playwright of huge political value - rather like Albert Camus in our own day more »
2016-09-17 | In 1941, Gallimard was eager to publish a novel by an unknown Algerian, Albert Camus. One problem: They couldn't find any paper more »
2020-12-08 | Michel Gallimard and Albert Camus were killed in a car crash in 1960. Gallimard was driving fast, but was foul play the true cause? more »
2013-11-20 | The FBI's philosophy files. Ever suspicious, J. Edgar Hoover was especially suspicious of French existentialists. He kept his eye on Sartre and Camus more »
2015-09-24 | Flaubert, Camus, Sartre, de Beauvoir: French intellectual culture was once the envy of the world. Now it’s mired in malaise more »
2016-02-20 | Pity Sartre! He spent three years wooing Wanda Kosakiewicz. Then Camus turned up and within days slept with her. Sartre never forgave him. more »
2020-04-18 | The Plague is Camus’s tale of illness and quarantine, yes, but its moral is one of inoculation through shared consciousness more »
2021-02-22 | In our time of plague, a cast of literary oracles has emerged: Camus, Defoe, Saramago. But in feeling trapped, Kafka is paramount more »
2015-03-31 | Orwell was 35 when he suffered his first bout; Camus was 17. Tuberculosis was one thing to discuss had they met in Paris, as planned, in February 1945 more »
2010-01-01 | Albert Camus ought to be buried in the Panthéon, with other great minds of France. But it looks as if it is not going to happen more »
2017-02-11 | Moralists like Zola and Camus have given way to propagandists like Zemmour and Houellebecq. The French intellectual is dead. Long live the French intellectual more »
2015-08-13 | The punch-happy writer is a literary cliche. We recognize the usual suspects: Hemingway, Mailer, Bukowski. But Keats, Camus, Lawrence, Thackeray? Who knew? more »
2023-03-15 | Orwell and Camus. Though they never met, they were preoccupied by the same question: How to think truthfully in a world of untruths? more »
2013-09-26 | Albert Camus wrote rapturously of his native Algeria, of its 'sensual delight.' So why has Algeria forsaken its most famous writer? more »
2012-11-26 | ?Even my death will be contested,' said Albert Camus. He was right. The pensive existentialist remains a discomfiting but indispensable presence more »
2012-08-16 | Camus once asked Sartre why he was so relentless a seducer of women. Sartre pointed at his own face: "Have you seen this mug?" more »
2012-08-16 | Mickey Mouse and existentialism. Albert Camus was once a 20-something with a degree and no job in sight. Then he joined up with Walt Disney more »
2018-03-17 | Whatever happened to alienation? It was once considered central to modern life, the stuff of Sartre, Camus, and Salinger. Now it seems to have vanished more »
2021-01-12 | When Catherine Camus was informed of the death of her son Albert, all she could say was, “Too young” more »
2021-03-05 | Camus, metereologist. At the Algiers Geophysics Institute, he grew increasingly disenchanted: “Observation here represents an arbitrary slice of reality” more »
2020-09-24 | Camus didn't do inspiration. And hope, he believed, is for suckers. But that doesn't mean he condoned despair more »
2016-03-28 | Camus in America. He was attracted by the hospitality but repelled by the superficiality. “The secret to conversation here is to talk in order to say nothing” more »
2018-03-06 | Albert Camus and Maria Casarès traded nearly 1,000 letters. Reading them, we discover a man we thought we knew and a woman most of us never knew more »
2016-12-27 | His previous novel said too much. "The true work of art is the one that says the least," he now believed; silence invites readers to imagine depth. How Camus wrote The Stranger more »