EBOOK Resistance, Rebellion, and Death
Opis
Essays
In the speech he gave upon accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, Albert Camus said that a writer "e;cannot serve today those who make history; he must serve those who are subject to it."e; And in these twenty-three political essays, he demonstrates his commitment to history&'s victims, from the fallen maquis of the French Resistance to the casualties of the Cold War. Resistance, Rebellion and Death displays Camus&' rigorous moral intelligence addressing issues that range from colonial warfare in Algeria to the social cancer of capital punishment. But this stirring book is above all a reflection on the problem of freedom, and, as such, belongs in the same tradition as the works that gave Camus his reputation as the conscience of our century: The Stranger, The Rebel, and The Myth of Sisyphus.
In the speech he gave upon accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, Albert Camus said that a writer "e;cannot serve today those who make history; he must serve those who are subject to it."e; And in these twenty-three political essays, he demonstrates his commitment to history&'s victims, from the fallen maquis of the French Resistance to the casualties of the Cold War. Resistance, Rebellion and Death displays Camus&' rigorous moral intelligence addressing issues that range from colonial warfare in Algeria to the social cancer of capital punishment. But this stirring book is above all a reflection on the problem of freedom, and, as such, belongs in the same tradition as the works that gave Camus his reputation as the conscience of our century: The Stranger, The Rebel, and The Myth of Sisyphus.