Claire Messud: Camus & Algeria - The Moral Question

If France was Camus’s father, Algeria was his mother; and for their adoring son, no divorce could be countenanced. He wrote frequently, in both nonfiction and fiction, about the bifurcated nature of his spirit: “The Mediterranean separates two worlds in me, one where memories and names are preserved in measured spaces, the other where the wind and sand erases [sic] all trace of men on the open ranges.” This carnal, wordless, unmeasured world (the world of his illiterate, nearly mute mother) was also one of his life’s great riches: “I grew up with the sea and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.”

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