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Article: Albert Camus 19: 'L'Homme revolte' cinquante ans apres.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- October 1, 2003
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Albert Camus 19: 'L'Homme revolte' cinquante ans apres. Ed. by RAYMOND GAY-CROSIER. Paris and Caen: Lettres Modernes Minard. 2001. 231 pp. 22.11 [euro]. ISBN 2-256-91031-8.
Five of the nine articles in this volume revisit L'Homme revolte fifty years after the storm triggered by Camus's trenchant, impressionistic review of a murderous European legacy. Denis Charbit provides a judicious reassessment of the essay, offering a vibrant account of the Les Temps modernes polemic and drawing out Camus's dissent from would-be infallible political theories and the killing they spawned. Yet Charbit rightly laments the absence in L'Homme revolte of any sustained critique of ...