In the speech he gave upon accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, Albert Camus said that a writer "cannot serve today those who make history; he must serve those who are subject to it." And in these twenty-three political essays, he demonstrates his commitment to history's victims, from the fallen maquis of the French Resistance to the casualties of the Cold War.
Resistance, Rebellion and Death displays Camus' rigorous moral intelligence addressing issues that range from colonial warfare in Algeria to the social cancer of capital punishment. But this stirring book is above all a reflection on the problem of freedom, and, as such, belongs in the same tradition as the works that gave Camus his reputation as the conscience of our century: The Stranger, The Rebel, and The Myth of Sisyphus.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Letters to a German Friend
The Liberation of Paris
The Blood of Freedom
The Night of Truth
Pessimism and Tyranny
Pessimism and Courage
Defense of Intelligence
The Unbeliever and Christians
Why Spain?
Defense of Freedom
Bread and Freedom
Homage to an Exile
Algeria
Preface to Algerian Reports
Letter to an Algerian Militant
Appeal for a Civilian Truce
Algeria 1958
Hungary
Kadar Had His Day of Fear
Socialism of the Gallows
Reflections of the Guillotine
The Artist and His Time
The Wager of Our Generation
Create Dangerously
