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Article: An insightful, if worshipful, look at Albert Camus, the complex rock star of postwar intelligentsia
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
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- July 19, 2009
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In the pantheon of photogenic writers with auras, Albert Camus
shares the dais with Ernest Hemingway and Samuel Beckett, no
question. Camus, with his trench coat, Gauloises, and Bogart mien.
In my high school crowd, I remember, our epithet of highest praise
was: "Existential!" We were thinking of Camus when we said it:
Paris, "The Stranger," some notion of the writer engage. Elizabeth
Hawes clearly had the same feeling, if not in high school then in
college - she admits as much. "I had posted quotations from Camus's
work around my dormitory room - stuck in the frame of a mirror,
propped up against a can of hair spray, sharing a thumbtack with a
Picasso print on the wall."
Hawes's Camus ...
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Article: Camus: Portrait of a Moralist.(Review)
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...Camus: Portrait of a Moralist. By Stephen ... and intellectual itinerary of Albert Camus, the Nobel Prize novelist, playwright, and essayist ... book by Conor Cruise O'Brien, Albert Camus of Europe and Africa. As did O'Brien ...
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