I was studying Camus broadly at the time, collecting his quotes and trying to describe him in one sentence. The Rebel came up as the most divisive thing he wrote.
Albert Camus's famous line "The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion" comes from his 1951 essay The Rebel (L'Homme revolte). He was 37 when it was published. The book caused a bitter falling-out with Jean-Paul Sartre, who disagreed with Camus's rejection of revolutionary violence. Their friendship never recovered.
I was studying Camus broadly at the time, collecting his quotes and trying to describe him in one sentence. The Rebel came up as the most divisive thing he wrote.
Albert Camus's famous line "The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion" comes from his 1951 essay The Rebel (L'Homme revolte). He was 37 when it was published. The book caused a bitter falling-out with Jean-Paul Sartre, who disagreed with Camus's rejection of revolutionary violence. Their friendship never recovered.