{"id":1316,"date":"2013-11-07T04:34:58","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T10:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nonsolusblog.wordpress.com\/?p=1316"},"modified":"2013-11-07T04:34:58","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T10:34:58","slug":"a-birthday-card-for-albert-camus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/2013\/11\/07\/a-birthday-card-for-albert-camus\/","title":{"rendered":"A Birthday Card for Albert Camus"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 229px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nonsolusblog.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/11\/q_216_c15h_camushomme__5-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image    \" id=\"i-1319\" style=\"margin:2px\" alt=\"Manuscript fragment from &quot;L'Homme r\u00e9volt\u00e9&quot; in Albert Camus's hand.\" src=\"http:\/\/nonsolusblog.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/11\/q_216_c15h_camushomme__5-copy.jpg?w=650\" width=\"229\" height=\"335\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Manuscript fragment from <em>L&#8217;Homme r\u00e9volt\u00e9<\/em> in Albert Camus&#8217;s hand.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Albert Camus, the French novelist, playwright, journalist, philosopher and Nobel Prize winner was born on this day, November 7, one hundred years ago.<\/p>\n<p>This is a good occasion to highlight a small manuscript fragment from Camus\u2019s 1951 essay <i>L\u2019Homme r\u00e9volt\u00e9<\/i> (Paris: Gallimard, translated in English as <i>The Rebel<\/i>) which was recently re-discovered on the shelves of the Rare Book &amp; Manuscript Library (shelfmark MS Q.216 C15h).<\/p>\n<p>Small graph paper pages in Camus\u2019s hand were pasted on seventeen larger leaves with annotations in blue ink, also in Camus\u2019s hand. These pages appear to be a draft or variants of the fourth section of the essay, titled \u201cR\u00e9volte et Art\u201d, and its sub-sections \u201cRoman et r\u00e9volte,\u201d R\u00e9volte et style\u201d and \u201cCr\u00e9ation et r\u00e9volution.\u201d The manuscript pages are followed by a series of six newspaper clippings relating to an exchange of open letters in the weekly review <em>Arts<\/em> between Andr\u00e9 Breton and Albert Camus about <em>L\u2019Homme r\u00e9volt\u00e9<\/em>. This fragment, bound in red morocco, was acquired from R. Simonson in 1966. <strong>CS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">**********<\/p>\n<p>The Cit\u00e9 du Livre \u2013 Biblioth\u00e8que M\u00e9janes in Aix-en-Provence (France) houses Albert Camus&#8217;s archives in its Centre Albert Camus: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citedulivre-aix.com\/Typo3\/fileadmin\/documents\/Expositions\/centrecamus\/\">http:\/\/www.citedulivre-aix.com\/Typo3\/fileadmin\/documents\/Expositions\/centrecamus\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albert Camus, the French novelist, playwright, journalist, philosopher and Nobel Prize winner was born on this day, November 7, one hundred years ago. This is a good occasion to highlight a small manuscript fragment from Camus\u2019s 1951 essay L\u2019Homme r\u00e9volt\u00e9 (Paris: Gallimard, translated in English as The Rebel) which was recently re-discovered on the shelves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,24,27,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-albert-camus","category-manuscripts","category-ms","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}