The Rebel by Albert Camus

[Josephine Garfunkel]

I've just finished reading The Rebel, and I wondered if anyone else has. It seemed a little wishy-washy to me, but perhaps I just didn't understand what he was getting at. What do you think?

[Susurrus]

I've read a little of the beginning, it seemed pretty good to me.

[Diello]

I enjoyed it; I really valued its matter-of-factness. I think I'd have to read it again to come up with any sort of real analysis of it.

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edit: whoops, wrong camus reference. off topic.

[Aloysius]

Haven't read The Rebel, yet. I've read The Stranger and The Plague, though. And his essay on The Myth of Sisyphus.

[soyonstout]

Benjamin Peret (surrealist, left oppositionist, and later left communist, and later anarchist) wrote a pretty harsh critique of The Rebel that unfortunately doesn't seem to be online, but appears in the collection, "A Menagerie in Revolt!" under the title "The Sunday Rebel." He basically tries to show that when Camus criticizes the marxist revolutionary project, he doesn't really touch it by conflating it with other forms of rebellion, and that you shouldn't analytically mix up individual and collective rebellion.

[OhYesIdid]

I haven't read it but I really want to. This text is what ended his long friendship with Sartre and alienated him from the French left.
hey, soyonstout, the political is personal.
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