RESISTANCE, REBELLION, AND DEATH

In the speech he gave upon accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, Albert Camus said that a writer "cannot serve today those who make history; he must serve those who are subject to it." And in these twenty-three political essays, he demonstrates his commitment to history's victims, from the fallen u003ciu003emaquisu003c/iu003e of the French Resistance to the casualties of the Cold War.u003cbru003e u003cbru003e u003ciu003eResistance, Rebellion and Deathu003c/iu003e displays Camus' rigorous moral intelligence addressing issues that range 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, and, as such, belongs in the same tradition as the works that gave Camus his reputation as the conscience of our century: u003ciu003eThe Strangeru003c/iu003e, u003ciu003eThe Rebelu003c/iu003e, and u003ciu003eThe Myth of Sisyphusu003c/iu003e.