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The Essence of Man |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / FEATURED BOOK: Commentary on Albert Camus' The First Man |
| Author: Thomas R. Flynn |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1996 |
| Size: 2,621 Words, 16,552 Characters |
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The posthumous publication of Albert Camus' unfinished autobiographical novel The First Man sends us back to those heady, tumultuous times of vintage existentialism, the days of apache dancing and Left Bank bistros, of absurdist theater and jazz clubs. "Jazz," mused Jean-Paul Sartre, "is like bananas; it must be consumed on the spot." This seemed to be the style of the denizens of the quartier Saint-Germain-des-Prés--everything was to be experienced sur place.
Into this world of free spirits and happy hedonists, Camus brought a contrary spirit, at once neo-Stoic in its drive to push the rock up the hill despite the inevitability of the rock's rolling back again and sober in its commitment to the poor of the earth. He was especially committed to those Algerians, European and Arab, amid w...
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...each would be if he had not had a Catholic upbringing to react against. In any case, Sartre inadvertently was composing his own epitaph when he wrote of Camus on the occasion of the latter's tragic death: "In this century and against history he was the representative and the present heir of that long line of moralists whose work perhaps constitutes what is most original in French literature."
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