Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 The Just Assassins: For the subject of The Just Assassins Camus went, for the first time, to history. The setting is Moscow in 1905. The cast is small, the stage sets are harsh, stingy with properties. Appropriately the language is hard...

WHEN ARMED agents from the Mossad, Israel's spy agency, infiltrated the North African city of Tunis in 1988 to kill Abu Jihad, 51, Yasser Arafat's PLO deputy commander, "they employed up to 4,000 men for his assassination," wrote Robert Fisk in The Independent on...

Les Justes is the third and last of his original plays which Camus considered to be attempts at modern tragedy (that is to say, together with Le Malentendu and L'Etat de siège, but excluding Caligula), and is frequently regarded as one of his most successful pieces of writing for the theater. Many accounts of the play appear to be based on an implicit acceptance of its claim to be a modern tragedy. The heroic, exalted atmosphere and the astringent dialogue and structure are admired, and epithe...