Albert Camus and the Human Crisis
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A renowned scholar investigates the "human crisis" that Albert Camus confronted in his world and in ours, producing a brilliant study of Camus's life and influence for those readers who, in Camus's words, "cannot live without dialogue and friendship."
As France-and all of the world-was emerging from the depths of…
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Writers know the importance of stories. So did Albert Camus. And so does Robert Emmett Meagher.
The setting of Meagher’s book on Camus mesmerized me because it was true. In 1946, Albert Camus, 32, sailed into the New York harbor on the freighter Oregon. He was sick with the flu and looked younger than his age but already was known as the “conscience of Europe.”
J. Edgar Hoover had been surveilling him for months because Camus once belonged to the Communist Party and the French Resistance. So when the writer applied to enter the United States, U.S. Immigration wasn’t going…
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