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Agnes Spiquel Appearing On the Occasion of the Exhibition “Albert Camus” Proposed by the Book Office Of The French Embassy

January 14th, 2014

Agnes Spiquel Appearing On the Occasion of the Exhibition “Albert Camus” Proposed by the Book Office Of The French Embassy

On January 15th 2014 from 19:00 to 21:00, Agnes Spiquel one of the best specialists on Albert Camus will be appearing at the event proposed by the book office of the French Embassy

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News from Berlin. On the occasion of the exhibition on “Albert Camus” proposed by the Book Office of the French Embassy in Berlin, one of the top writers on the subject Agnes Spiquel, will be making an appearance. Albert Camus’ work includes plays, novels, short stories, poems, films and essays.

Albert Camus was an Algerian-French Nobel Prize winning author, journalist, and philosopher. His views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism. He wrote in his essay “The Rebel” that his whole life was devoted to opposing the philosophy of nihilism while still delving deeply into individual and sexual freedom.

Although often cited as a proponent of existentialism, the philosophy with which Camus was associated during his own lifetime, he 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…” (However, upon reconsideration, Sartre later accepted the association to existentialism).

He was a journalist and a committed activist in the French Resistance during the moral struggles of the post war period. Camus was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature “for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times”.

Professor of literature at Valenciennes, Agnes Spiquel collaborated in publishing the complete works of Camus in the ‘Bibliothèque de la Pléiade’ and co-directed with Raymond Gay- Crosier.

More information can be found here:http://www.institutfrancais.de/saarbruecken/agenda-1325/litterature-1334/albert-camus-en-mots-et-en-images,30703.html

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