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Camus and America

I can not resist the avalanche Camus not bring my modest contribution. Read a few days ago in a volume of his books (number II p 114).

About the American novel: It is the universal. As classicism. But while the classic is an eternal universal, contemporary literature, because of circumstances (interpenetration of boundaries) is a universal history. This is not the man of all time is the man of all spaces.

This sentence is probably written in 1943-1944. Camus seems to hold in low esteem by writers (North) American Faulkner put out and the writers of the nineteenth century (mean Melville and Hawthorne). In a short interview published in Combat 17 January 1947 he sharpens his pen even more by saying that the men of the American novel elemental beings are devoid of taste for the shortcut, of understatement, the implied (values rooted in the French tradition ), they are representatives universal value-but-true basic. The literature of North America is then reduced to a "literary magazine." However, at the end of the interview he suggests (without naming names) a promise of exceeding the American literature, an explosion beneficial ...