Ovablastic (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
“What? Those cheap ladies behind those windows? Dream, monsieur , cheap dream, a trip to the Indies! Those persons perfume themselves with spices. You go in, they draw the curtains, and the navigation begins. The gods come down onto the naked bodies and the islands are set adrift, lost souls crowned with the tousled hair of palm trees in the wind. Try it.” - Camus, the Fall.
France24 (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
President Nicolas Sarkozy has announced that he would like Nobel Prize winning author Albert Camus’s remains moved from a cemetery in Provence to the Panthéon in Paris, where France’s greatest men and women are buried.
A Writer's Desk (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day. - Albert Camus (1913 - 1960) Camus' last judgment was in Burgandy, January 4, 1960 when he died in a car crash at the age of 46. Should his remains, then, stay where they are or should they be moved to Paris's Pantheon? The debate rages .
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
For some people, that would be reason enough to leave Mr. Camus where he lies. “He didn't like Paris and he would be a stranger there, a foreigner in this Republican mausoleum, with its pediments, columns and cupolas, its classical frescoes and chilly marble,” wrote Gérard Courtoisin an editorial in the newspaper Le Monde. The Pantheon was originally built as a church in the 18th century but...
Time (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
French President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to move Albert Camus' ashes to the famed PanthÉon in Paris as a way of revering the writer and philosopher. His critics, however, see more tactical motivations
Truthdig (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
A French writer could do a lot worse than be buried alongside the likes of Emile Zola, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Victor Hugo, but some compatriots of philosopher Albert Camus, as well as his son, Jean, are none too pleased with President Nicolas Sarkozy’s plan to relocate Camus’ ashes to the celebrated Panthéon in Paris. READ THE WHOLE ITEM
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
The problem has less to do with Camus' grandeur than with the tactics of Nicolas Sarkozy says Henry Samuel.
Cogitamus (Free subscription) | yesterday
You see, I've heard of a man whose friend had been imprisoned and who slept on the floor of his room e very night in order not to enjoy a comfort of which his friend had been deprived. Who, my friend, will sleep on the floor for us? Whether I am capable of it myself? Look, I'd like to be and I shall be. Yes, we shall all be capable of it one day, and that will be salvation. "The Fall " - Albert...
The Australian (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
If sport is to be a metaphor for life, what are we to make of professional athletes' bad behaviour on the sporting field? THERE is something about the French, football and philosophy. It all starts with Albert Camus, arguably the greatest of the 20th century philosophes.As a young man, Camus played goalkeeper for his university team in Algeria. The experience made a lasting impression....
Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? 2.0 (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken. - Albert Camus Perhaps we can never be thankful enough for what the universe provides us with. Three years ago, I wasn’t sure I was going to recover from the deadly virus that took over my body. Yet here I am. Two weeks ago, I wasn’t [...]
西儒 ─ The Western Confucian (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
We could have a sacrilegious Panthéon , and inane controversies like this one — Reburying Albert Camus: A Political Ploy by Sarkozy? Let the "author whose defense of the downtrodden and veneration of the individual over the oppressive forces of society earned him fame and respect around the globe" rest in peace, without being coöpted by the State, I say. Subscribe...
nationale (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
andrew zucherman, creature (chronicle books, $60) oh, and also arranging books by color. or lack of, rather. nerd! carson mccullers. henry miller. albert camus. andrew zucherman. wallace cochran. and free postcards by sarah gottesdiener.
Jake Weird (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Interview with Kristen Stewart to Better.tv She allegedly is dating Robert Pattinson, but she makes a comment about as she's perceived as 'dating someone she's not'. "-What is your favorite book? -Kristen Stewart: "I actually have two. I just finished Cannery Row by John Steinbeck, which was really intense. The other is The Stranger by Albert Camus, that was heavy." Source:...
