Man of our times: Why Albert Camus matters

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ธ.ค. 2020
  • He's been gone six decades but after 2020, it feels like French literary great Albert Camus matters more than ever. The year began with tributes for the 60th anniversary of the French existentialist icon's premature death in a car crash. Then came Covid-19. Confined readers the world over dusted off that go-to guide to making sense of the randomly unexpected, "The Plague". We ask our panel about the re-reading of a novel set in Camus's native Algeria in the wake of World War II. But it's not just "The Plague" that is timeless.
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  • @brook1636
    @brook1636 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    "I opened up myself to the gentle indifference of the universe" One of the best words put on paper.

  • @rjleslee
    @rjleslee 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    In 80s, i taught Camus' The Plague' to a gp of Asian college students aiming to enter universities abroad. It was a prescribed text book so we had no choice but to study it. It was tough n challenging to students whose English is a 2nd language. But as a teacher it made an impact on me n my outlook in life. Camus is full of humanity.

  • @EricaNernie
    @EricaNernie 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Just reading 'La Peste' now. It is amazing the similarities between the elements of the novel and events today: initial denial by authorities, people trying to escape, obsession with numbers of victims, some businesses failing and others succeeding.

    • @rjleslee
      @rjleslee 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      In the end he praises those who never gave up the fight. 'There' re more things to admire in men than to despise.' (if i can remember correctly)

  • @briankevinpacis554
    @briankevinpacis554 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Long live camus

  • @JSwift-jq3wn
    @JSwift-jq3wn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Camus is the poet supreme. He brought back truth-telling to literature.

  • @raygreen5926
    @raygreen5926 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    In the depths of winter I discovered a summer within......Albert Camus 🔔🦋🔔

  • @johnsharman7262
    @johnsharman7262 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Camus was a 'writer' first, not a public intellectual: he wrote from his solitude of poverty, sea and sun in Algeria. The times demanded he speak publicly on many political issues: he wanted to retreat from this role and become a 19th century 'moraliste' writer, to be respected as writers once were and left in peace.

  • @boxingjerapah
    @boxingjerapah 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The greatest philosopher.
    He died in a car accident, with a train ticket in his pocket. Absurd.

  • @palletocynic367
    @palletocynic367 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    C’est un grand philosophe, j’ai pas eu l’occasion de lire ces livres mais un bref passage de quelques pages de un de son livre m’a donné l’impression que c’était un révolutionnaire en même temps un thinker.

  • @albertgrant1017
    @albertgrant1017 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    He was so much better than

  • @larkatmic
    @larkatmic 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    More like this France 24 English 👍

  • @MS-un9zq
    @MS-un9zq ปีที่แล้ว

    Love ❤️ it

  • @DJSTOEK
    @DJSTOEK 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    🖤

  • @mohanabdi656
    @mohanabdi656 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    why I am Here?

  • @oldmechanic5744
    @oldmechanic5744 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Existentialism! I learned about it in A Stranger many years ago. Enjoy the day Today, God exists in the Now!

  • @wazzup3270
    @wazzup3270 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Their makes us the reality show, and they all know it 🤔🙄🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️

  • @ixmix
    @ixmix 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    He wasn't an existentialist...

  • @Alejandroredgear
    @Alejandroredgear 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Am practiceing to be a super humen of our times Most of you are scared of death

  • @benquinneyiii7941
    @benquinneyiii7941 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is absurd

    • @ivanrlynn
      @ivanrlynn หลายเดือนก่อน

      beyond the imagination

  • @Molecular-Brainwaves-Translate
    @Molecular-Brainwaves-Translate 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You can't be an ex-Commun*st, refer to yourself as an anarcho-syndacal*st, support the French Resistance AND the emancipation of native Algerians, as a white person and not be political. Albert Camus was so political, he was too cool for the Soviets. Anti-Commun*st AND Anti-Imperial*st, Anti-Colonial*st, and Anti-Rac*st. The only thing he wasn't was perhaps a femin*st, but he had a love for women it seemed....