Create Dangerously: The Power and Responsibility of the Artist - Softcover

Camus, Albert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1984897381 ISBN 13: 9781984897381

Verlag: Vintage, 2019

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Reseña del editor

A bold, timely argument for the responsibility of artists to challenge, provoke, and speak up for those who cannot, from the Nobel Prize-winning philosopher. In a new translation and available as a stand-alone little book for the first time.

"To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing." In 1957, Albert Camus gave a speech entitled "Create Dangerously," which was, in effect, a call to arms for artists, in particular those who came from an immigrant background, like he did. Looking around at the legacy of the past, at a Europe emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, Camus understood the necessity of those making art in all forms as a part of civil society, and issued this cry for artistic freedom and responsibility. His words today remain as timely as ever, and in this new translation, Camus's message will resonate with a new generation of writers and artists who endeavor to create, who understand that "the time of irresponsible artists is over" and that "all greatness, after all, is rooted in risk."

Biografía del autor

Born in Algeria in 1913, ALBERT CAMUS published The Stranger--now one of the most widely read novels of this century--in 1942. Celebrated in intellectual circles, Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957. On January 4, 1960, he was killed in a car accident.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Vintage
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1984897381
• ISBN 13: 9781984897381
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 64