Camus, Albert (Vol. 2) | Camus, Albert 1913–1960
Camus, Albert 1913–1960
A Nobel Prize-winning French existentialist novelist, essayist, and playwright, Camus is best known for The Stranger.
In La Chute [The Fall] Albert Camus renounces the paradoxical and arbitrary optimism of his preceding books, the hope born of despair to which Le Mythe de Sisyphe [The Myth of Sisyphus], La Peste [The Plague] and L'Homme révolté [The Rebel] testify. He does not deny his past attempts to tailor to man's measure the enormity that overwhelms him, but he relaxes for a moment, to catch his breath a bit, and mildly complain. Not so happy as to want to prove his happiness to himself in order to be less uncomfortable, Sisyphus, suffering and in despair, looks for a change of position so that his grief may be lulled to sleep or dismissed. Thus, La Chute came into being, the most beautiful book that Albert Camus has written since Le Mythe de Sisyphe. Since L'Etranger [The...
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