Article: Camus, Sartre and the Algerian war. (writers Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre)

Between Camus and Sartre, the Algerian war is a fertile ground for all kinds of paradoxes. If, as Roland Dumas put it, the war was really 'Sartre's war',(1) nothing had, a priori, prepared the philosopher for his role as the conflict's leading intellectual: neither his ignorance of the specific problems of French colonialism in Algeria nor his late and incidental involvement in the conflict. His visit to the M'Zab as a tourist with Simone de Beauvoir in 1950 had a political purpose: 'We were against the colonialist system', wrote De Beauvoir upon their return, 'but we had no a priori prejudice against the local administrators or those in charge of building the roads.'(2) ...

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