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21. Epilogue: ‘for the sorrow and education of men’
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21. Epilogue: ‘for the sorrow and education of men’

Or, reading Albert Camus' The Plague during COVID, climate change, and various political crises

Matthew Lamb
Dec 27, 2021
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In late 1938, Camus was in the process of overhauling A Happy Death and re-imagining his approach to fiction – into what would over the next few years become The Stranger. In his notebooks he outlined this new approach, regarding the relation between artist and work of art. This text appeared, in a slightly more refined form, in “Absurd Creation”, pub…

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