Professor David Peimer
Albert Camus: His Life and Work (including his book, ‘The Plague’)
Summary
Albert Camus was born in Algeria in 1913 and passed away in 1960 at a relatively young age. This lecture provides an overview of his life and the historical context of his era with a focus on his notable works, primarily “The Plague”, “The Outsider”, and “The Myth of Sisyphus”, highlighting their philosophical elements. His extraordinary life, literary talent, philosophical inclinations, and sense of humor are explored.
Professor David Peimer
David Peimer is a professor of theatre and performance studies in the UK. He has taught at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and New York University (Global Division), and was a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University. Born in South Africa, David has won numerous awards for playwriting and directing. He has written eleven plays and directed forty in places like South Africa, New York, Brussels, London, Berlin, Zulu Kingdom, Athens, and more. His writing has been published widely and he is the editor of Armed Response: Plays from South Africa (2009) and the interactive digital book Theatre in the Camps (2012). He is on the board of the Pinter Centre in London.
No, I don’t think so. Especially not after the Holocaust and what he saw happening. That’s part of the reason why he wrote in the late forties and and into the fifties.
Camus, if romanticism is the last refuge of the cynic, maybe Sartre, but I think Camus probably more romantic.