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A review by asia_b
Create Dangerously by Albert Camus
2.0
2.5
The essay about art was enlightening, but, dare I say, a bit ineffective for its objective. And this is especially valid for the other two essays because -as Camus himself says- art is a product of the times, and his times are very different from ours: they are a product of the post-war, post-socialism, and Europe failure; therefore he is so focused in freedom, dictators, political parties and intellectual wars that nowadays it results old and sounds detached from our reality if not a little bit fanatic or idealist (I lost count of the times he talks about concentration camps or Russia).
But what he says it's true and valid: I see how helpful it still is to remember the importance of freedom and the obligation of intellectuals to not bend to power; but it needs a new way of being said because now we are in a new era where, even if the evil is the same, the means are extremely different.
The essay about art was enlightening, but, dare I say, a bit ineffective for its objective. And this is especially valid for the other two essays because -as Camus himself says- art is a product of the times, and his times are very different from ours: they are a product of the post-war, post-socialism, and Europe failure; therefore he is so focused in freedom, dictators, political parties and intellectual wars that nowadays it results old and sounds detached from our reality if not a little bit fanatic or idealist (I lost count of the times he talks about concentration camps or Russia).
But what he says it's true and valid: I see how helpful it still is to remember the importance of freedom and the obligation of intellectuals to not bend to power; but it needs a new way of being said because now we are in a new era where, even if the evil is the same, the means are extremely different.