ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author talks about the religious implications of literary and philosophical texts of Albert Camus. Albert Camus was born in Algeria in 1913. During World War II he was active in the French Resistance and edited the paper Combat, His novel, L'étranger attracted wide attention. His second novel, La Peste, established Camus' international reputation. His major philosophic attempt, L'Homme Révolté, was well received as a declaration of conscience but not acclaimed by professional philosophers. Camus received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1957. A collection of his editorials, essays, and miscellaneous pieces, which Camus himself selected from the three volumes of his Actuelles, was published in English as Resistance, Rebellion, and Death. This volume includes "Reflections on the Guillotine"; but the following translation is that which appeared earlier in the Evergreen Review, first in 1957, and then once more in 1960.
