by Federico Sollazzo (p.sollazzo@inwind.it)
It seems that to write a poem about spring today would be to serve capitalism. I am not a poet, but I should delight in such a work without mental reservation, if it were beautiful. One serves mankind all together or not at all. And if man needs bread and justice, and if we must do the necessary to satisfy that need, he also needs pure beauty, which is the bread of his hearth. The rest is not serious.
A. C.
Abstract: The critical reception of Camus in Italy, mainly underlines the Mediterranean mark of the Camusian thought. In last years several works on Albert Camus have appeared in Italy, and all of them exhibit a crucial feature: the “Thought at the Meridian”. It is a sign that crosses the entire Work of the Author, since the first works of success, as Le Myhte de Sisyphe and, of course, L’Homme révolté, in which the last chapter is entirely dedicated to this theme. One century after the birth of Camus, I would like to offer a review of these Italian critical interpretations of the French thinker, and to show some very rich points in common with other important authors contemporary to him.
Keywords: Albert Camus, Mare Nostrum, Tempus Nostrum, Midì, Abend-land.
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In the Italian common opinion Albert Camus is usually considered a literary man, in a generic meaning. This is for the unsystematic of his thought and for the lack of using of a particular conventional style of expression. Contrary to this opinion, what I would like to argue here is that Camus is to be considered a proper thinker, one of the most interesting of the last century. In his overall thought it is indeed present a kind of philosophical analysis of the human condition that, for its great actuality, can furnish a relevant contribution for interpreting our present and imagining a possible future. For this, in his thought are possible to find, inter alia, fruitful common points (which I will show) with other important intellectuals of the twentieth century, such as, among the others, Hannah Arendt, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Herbert Marcuse.
– Continues in Cogito. Multidisciplinary Research Journal (here on Central and Eastern European Online Library)
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