Volume 13, Number 6 · October 9, 1969
Camus, Algeria, and "The Fall"
By Conor Cruise O'Brien
Camus's political writings on the Algerian war are collected in Actuelles III (Chroniques Algériennes) which he published in 1958. It is a depressing volume. The manner, in the post-1945 essays, is not so much that of Camus as that of the moderate bourgeois French journalism of the period: categorical and resonant in tone, equivocal in substance.
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