Reflections on the Guillotine by Albert Camus

Reflections on the Guillotine

Albert Camus

50 pages first pub 1957 (view editions) user-added

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'When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out'Written when execution by guillotine was still legal in France, Albe...

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