Albert Camus
A man is dead: you think of his living face, of his gestures, his actions, and of moments you shared, trying to recapture an image that is dissolved forever. A writer is dead: you reflect upon his work, upon each …
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History, Freedom, and Utopia 
My dear Andre, If I have not written to you until today it is not out of laziness or forgetfulness, but because, after our frequent and somewhat inconclusive conversations, I felt I owed it to myself (and to you) to …
On Albert Camus
A man is dead: you think of his living face, of his gestures, his actions, and of moments you shared, trying to recapture an image that is dissolved forever. A writer is dead: you reflect upon his work, upon each …
Historical Necessity & Conscience
One of the great novels of 20th-century Europe, Roger Martin du Gard’s The Thibaults, has recently been reprinted in English translation by Bantam Books, with an introduction by Albert Camus. Little known in the U.S., The Thibaults consists of a …
On Modern Tyranny: A Critique of Western Intellectuals
Recently, confronted by the renewed repression of intellectual life in the Soviet Union and the rebellious movements in Czechoslovakia and Poland, the following argument has often been repeated in conversation and advanced in the press: The protest of intellectuals and …
The Unreason of State
When, after hearing about a case of government corruption, police torture, or arbitrary arrest we in Europe call on the state to respect moral values, we forget that the most important privilege modern bureaucratic government guarantees (if not imposes on) …
Albert Camus
A man is dead: you think of his living face, of his gestures, his actions, and of moments you shared, trying to recapture an image that is dissolved forever. A writer is dead: you reflect upon his work, upon each …
Doctor Zhivago and Modern Sensibility
Dear Lionel, I think that Doctor Zhivago is one of the most beautiful novels written since Proust, if not the most beautiful. I don’t see, in fact, what other contemporary novelist, with the possible exception of Faulkner, can be compared …
The Individual and the Mass
If it is true that we live in a mass society, we must immediately admit one fact: there are some individuals who are more affected by it than others, but there are not, nor can there be, privileged persons. There …
