Resistance, Rebellion, and Death

In the speech given upon accepting the Nobel Literature Prize in 1957, Albert Camus declared a writer "cannot serve today those who make history; he must serve those who are subject to it." These 23 political essays demonstrate his commitment to history's victims, from the fallen maquis of the French Resistance to the casualties of the Cold War. Resistance, Rebellion & Death displays his rigorous moral intelligence addressing issues ranging from colonial warfare in Algeria to the social cancer of capital punishment. But this stirring book is above all a reflection on the problem of freedom. As such, it belongs in the same tradition as the works that gave him his reputation as the conscience of our century: The Plague, The Rebel & The Myth of Sisyphus.