1.0 link 26004 <![CDATA[Now is the Time for Camus -- as an Antidote to Despair]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-heffernan/now-is-the-time-for-camus_b_26004.html If the latest news from the Middle East makes you want to puke, I have a suggestion. As an antidote to nausea and despair, read Albert Camus' The Plague.

Born in the Algerian village of Mondavi in November 1913, just a few months before the outbreak of World War I, Camus scarcely knew his father, a winery worker and grandson of French immigrants who was called up to fight for France in the summer of 1914. Soon after, when Albert was...

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