"Paris is firing all its ammunition into the August night.
Against a vast backdrop of water and stone, on both sides of a
river awash with history, freedom's barricades are once again being
erected. Once again justice must be redeemed with men's blood."
Albert Camus (1913-1960) wrote these words in August 1944, as
Paris was being liberated from German occupation. Although best
known for his novels including "The Stranger" and "The Plague," it
was his vivid descriptions of the horrors of the occupation and his
passionate defense of freedom that in fact launched his public
fame.
Now, for the first time in English, "Camus at 'Combat'" presents
all of Camus' World War II resistance and early postwar writings
published in "Combat," the resistance newspaper where he served as
editor-in-chief and editorial writer between 1944 and 1947. These
165 articles and editorials show how Camus' thinking evolved from
support of a revolutionary transformation of postwar society to a
wariness of the radical left alongside his longstanding strident
opposition to the reactionary right. These are poignant depictions
of issues ranging from the liberation, deportation, justice for
collaborators, the return of POWs, and food and housing shortages,
to the postwar role of international institutions, colonial
injustices, and the situation of a free press in democracies. The
ideas that shaped the vision of this Nobel-prize winning novelist
and essayist are on abundant display.
More than fifty years after the publication of these writings,
they have lost none of their force. They still speak to us about
freedom, justice, truth, and democracy.
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