Birth: September 5, 1945
Recognition, gratefulness exist.[ Speech for the Nobel Prize] is to show that this is what has come from what [Albert Camus] teacher did for him. And….
[Albert Camus] also says that nothing is true which forces exclusion. From that, you're obliged to accept contradictions if you don't want to reject ….
[Albert] Camus writes his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in thanks to his teacher..
One thing that is evident is that [Albert] Camus could never be a 'neutral' man. This is because he was committed; look at his real physical involvem….
The First Man is [Albert Camus] posthumous last work. But in fact, in a certain way, it is his first, because in it you find the signs of his commitm….
[French intellectuals] could never address themselves to the working classes. They don't know what it means, and that gives them a bad conscience abo….
[Albert Camus]didn't have much hope that things would work out, but he wanted them to. Algeria had reached such a degree of violence that once such v….
I think for an artist what is most important is to touch as many hearts as possible..
What the articles which have been written about The First Man propose is humility. The acceptance of these contradictions. Seeking an explanation is ….
In fact it was always the Communist problem which was responsible for the opposition to [Albert] Camus. It was always and overall a political thing, ….
[Albert Camus] always held a profound commitment [engagement], a real resistance to all totalitarianism..
I think for [Albert] Camus his mother was more than just that. She's love, absolute love. That's why it's written for her, dedicated to 'you who will….
[Albert] Camus points out that we have a lot of things to pass through. Everything has to be accepted before it can be improved..
Politically, [Albert Camus] was in favour of a federation, and effectively he considered that like South Africa today (or as they are trying to do), ….
During the '80s, those you would call the young philosophers of France, such as Bernard-Henri Lévy and [André ] Gluxman, pointed out that Camus had s….
The Outsider isn't [Albert] Camus, but in The Outsider there are parts of Camus. There's this impression of exile..
[Albert] Camus always insisted that historical criteria and historical reasoning were not the only things to take into account, and that they weren't….
There is an interview given by [ Jean-Paul] Sartre in the USA where he is asked what the future of French literature is, and he replies that the next….
[Albert]Camus had denounced the gulag and Stalin's trials. Today we can see that he was right. To say that there were concentration camps in the USSR….
In publishing The First Man I said to myself, 'this is going to be awful,' but awful from the point of view of the criticism. I'm not afraid of [Albe….
Just after the war, the liberation of 1945, [Albert] Camus was well known, well loved by [Jean-Paul ] Sartre and all the intellectuals of that genera….