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Between Hell and Reason
Essays from the Resistance Newspaper Combat, 1944–1947
Translated Alexandre de Gramont
Sales Date: 1991-08-01
182 Pages, 5.50 x 8.50 in
Collected for the first time in English, 41 of Albert Camus's Combat essays trace the evolution of moral and political themes central to his literary works
CONTRIBUTORS: Elizabeth Young-Bruehl.
Foreword by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
Preface and Acknowledgements
Translator's Introduction
1. Combat, from Resistance to Revolution
2. The Revolution RIned toward a third way
3. "Neither Victims nor Executioners"
4. Conclusion. Camus's Resignation from Combat
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
"An excellent introduction to the political thinking that illuminates all Camus's work . . . This book presents his political credo during 1944–47 [when] he edited the journal Combat, initially published clandestinely by the French Resistance"
~Library Journal
""In this remarkable series of brief documents we get an inspiring picture of a man blessed with sanity and courageCamus was one of the most sane and honest men of the century, and this document records for the first time in English his complete editorials for Combat, which will serve as a warning to revolutionaries even in the centuries to come.""
~Booklist
""An excellent introduction to the political thinking that illuminates all Camus's work . . . This book presents his political credo during 1944–47 [when] he edited the journal Combat, initially published clandestinely by the French Resistance""
~Library Journal
""Intensely personal, unsystematic, impassioned, partial, utopian, the essays illuminate central insights of [Campus's] imaginative works.""
~Freedom Review