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In his biography of Camus, Herbert Lottman tells an amusing story of how Camus, Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir spent a drunken evening in various bistros on the Left Bank. As the dawn was breaking, Sartre and Camus walked back across a bridge over the Seine, and Sartre commented, ‘To think that in a few hours I’m going to talk about the writer’s responsibility [at the Sorbonne].’1
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Herbert R. Lottman, Albert Camus: A Biography (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1979) p. 404.
Albert Camus, ‘The Night of Truth’, in Resistance, Rebellion and Death, tr. Justin O’Brien (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1961) p. 29.
Søren Kierkegaard, Repetition, tr. Howard and Edna Hong (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1983) p. 200.
André Malraux, Man’s Estate, tr. Alastair Macdonald (Harmondsworth, Middx: Penguin, 1961) p. 5.
Herbert R. Lottman, The Left Bank: Writers, Artists, and Politics from the Popular Front to the Cold War (London: Heinemann, 1982) p. 99.
See Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology, tr. Hazel E. Barnes (London: Methuen, 1969).
Jean-Paul Sartre, ‘La République du silence’, in Situations, III (Paris: Gallimard, 1949) p. 11. First published in Lettres françaises, 1944.
Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus, tr. Justin O’Brien (Harmondsworth, Middx: Penguin, 1975) p. 19.
Jean-Paul Sartre, Words, tr. Irene Clephane (Harmondsworth, Middx: Penguin, 1967) p. 157.
See Albert Camus, The Rebel, tr. Anthony Bower (Harmondsworth, Middx: Penguin, 1971).
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Wilson, C. (1988). The Decline and Fall of Existentialism. In: Crossley, C., Small, I. (eds) Studies in Anglo-French Cultural Relations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07921-6_9
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