The Economist (US), April 27th, 1996
WHEN Albert Camus was killed in a car crash in January 1960, something was lost to France that has never been recovered. Camus was mourned because young people loved both him and his work and thought of him as a lost brother. They did not want him to run for public office, or to set up as an intellectual dictator. They just wanted him to be alive at the same time as they were. And how did he do it? By being true to himself, with all the difficulties and contradictions that that involved. Doctrinaires of every stamp lose patience with him, on that account. But for young people, unknown and as ...
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