Rebellion, though apparently negative, since it creates
nothing, is profoundly positive in that it reveals the part of man which must
always be defended.[1]
- Albert Camus, L’Homme revolté (1951).
- Albert Camus, L’Homme revolté (1951).
[1] Albert Camus, The Rebel: An Essay on a
Man in Revolt, tr. Anthony Bower (New York: Vintage Books/Random House,
1991), p. 19. While written between 1947
and 1951, Camus’ work also reflects his underground activities, begun in 1942, with
the French Resistance network known as “Combat”. Camus won the Nobel Prize in Literature in
1957, and died an untimely death by car accident in January 1960, at the age of
46.