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Neither Victims Nor Executioners
by Albert Camus
Neither Victims Nor Executioners ( Ni Victimes, ni bourreaux) are a series of essays by Albert Camus that were serialized in Combat, the daily newspaper of the French Resistance, in November 1946. In these essays he discusses violence and murder and the impact these have on those who perpetrate, suffer, or observe. The essays were translated into English by Dwight Macdonald and published in the July–August 1947 issue of Politics.
FictionLiteraryPhilosophyEthics & Moral PhilosophyPolitical SciencePeace
RELEASED1986
PUBLISHERNew Society Publishers
LENGTH55
LANGUAGEEN
Albert Camus was a French Algerian author, philosopher, and journalist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. He was a key philosopher of the 20th-century and his most famous work is the novel *L'Étranger* (*The Stranger*). In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement, which was a group opposed to some tendencies of the surrealistic movement of André Breton. Camus was the second-youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature - after Rudyard Kipling - when he became the first African-born writer to receive the award. He is the shortest-lived of any literature laureate to date, having died in an automobile accident just over two years after receiving the award. He is often cited as a proponent of existentialism, the philosophy that he was associated with during his own lifetime, but Camus himself rejected this particular label. In an interview in 1945, Camus rejected any ideological associations: "No, I am not an existentialist. Sartre and I are always surprised to see our names linked…"
5.0
Neither Victims Nor Executioners
by Albert Camus
Neither Victims Nor Executioners ( Ni Victimes, ni bourreaux) are a series of essays by Albert Camus that were serialized in Combat, the daily newspaper of the French Resistance, in November 1946. In these essays he discusses violence and murder and the impact these have on those who perpetrate, suffer, or observe. The essays were translated into English by Dwight Macdonald and published in the July–August 1947 issue of Politics.
FictionLiteraryPhilosophyEthics & Moral PhilosophyPolitical SciencePeaceSocial ScienceViolence in Society
RELEASED1986
PUBLISHERNew Society Publishers
LENGTH55
LANGUAGEEN
Albert Camus was a French Algerian author, philosopher, and journalist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. He was a key philosopher of the 20th-century and his most famous work is the novel *L'Étranger* (*The Stranger*). In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement, which was a group opposed to some tendencies of the surrealistic movement of André Breton. Camus was the second-youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature - after Rudyard Kipling - when he became the first African-born writer to receive the award. He is the shortest-lived of any literature laureate to date, having died in an automobile accident just over two years after receiving the award. He is often cited as a proponent of existentialism, the philosophy that he was associated with during his own lifetime, but Camus himself rejected this particular label. In an interview in 1945, Camus rejected any ideological associations: "No, I am not an existentialist. Sartre and I are always surprised to see our names linked…"
