Albert Camus News

Bad Ideas Never Die : Jean-Francois Revela TMs career-long argument against utopian thinking: a review of Last Exit to Utopia: The Survival of Socialism in a Post-Soviet Era, by Jean-Francois Revel French public intellectuals have a reputationa 'well-deserveda 'for being socialists, Marxists, or Trotskyists.

Normally, honoring a writer as conventionally admired as the Nobel-prizewinning French author Albert Camus fifty years after his accidental death in a car crash should not be a controversial matter.

"What I know most surely about morality and the duty of man I owe to sport," once declared Albert Camus, the great humanist writer and an accomplished goalkeeper.

"We are made to live for others. But one really dies only for oneself." The author of this journal entry was 46 and world famous when he was killed in a car crash south of Paris on Jan.

The son of Albert Camus has joined the French leftwing establishment in opposing a plan by President Sarkozy to elevate the country's greatest post-war writer by moving his remains to the Panthon necropolis in Paris.

President Nicolas Sarkozy's rocky relationship with France's literary elite has suffered a fresh blow after his plan to transfer Albert Camus' remains to the Pantheon was rejected by the great writer's son, amid claims of political opportunism.

Gheorghe Dinica, a Romanian actor who delighted his country by portraying characters such as villainous politicians and defiant Gypsies in dozens of plays and movies, died Tuesday.

Founded in 1993, Asmita today is one of the leading Hindi theatre groups in the country.

ALTHOUGH Albert Camus is mostly remembered as a Nobel Prize-winning French novelist and political essayist, he was also a man of the theatre.

The third emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty was a nasty piece of goods. Called "little boots" or Caligula by the legions of his noble father, Germanicus, he began his brief reign loved by the populace and by the Senate.