On the level of ethics it represented an effort to formulate more precisely the doctrine of Stoic protest against mass suffering that had formed the central theme of The Plague. For L’Homme Révolté was both a philosophic and a political tract. Already estranged from Sartre, Camus marked with his new book his final break from the former’s curious blend of Existentialism and Marxism. He was distinguished among French intellectuals by the firmness of his anti-Communist convictions, his moral elevation, and his refusal to rest content with the prevailing philosophic mood of despair. The author of The Stranger and The Plague had already achieved a position of unquestioned preeminence as a novelist. The publication a year and a half ago of Albert Camus’ L’Homme Révolté was bound to cause a sensation in French literary circles. Translated from the French by Anthony Bower.
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