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Name: The Fastidious Assassins

Author: Albert Camus
Year: 1949
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Genres/categories: Play, Classic, Philosophy
Culture: France

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A daring critique of communism and how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain, Camus' essay examines the revolutions in France and Russia, and argues that since they were both guilty of producing tyranny and corruption, hope for the future lies only in revolt without revolution.
About the author:
Albert Camus was a representative of non-metropolitan French literature. His origin in Algeria and his experiences there in the thirties were dominating influences in his thought and work.

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