| Author Quoted | Albert Camus |
| Title Quoted | Fall and Exile and the kingdom / Albert Camus ; transl. from the French Chute by Justin O'Brien |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1966/09/17 |
| Imprint | New York : Modern Library. [c1958] |
| Quotation | Reread Camus' "Renegad" and today the "Growing Stone." I wish to compare them. Nostalgia for primitive community. Camus is really a traditionalist and romantic conservative, balked by fact that he can't accept Christian transcendence - or even, really, primitive immanence either. So he has neither Man nor Macumba - but wants to celebrate the Sisyphus with primitives none the less. Knows it is hopeless, of course. The ending of "Growing Ston" gives it all away. |
| Quotation Source | Learning to love: exploring solitude and freedom. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 6, 1966-1967.; Edited by Christine M. Bochen. / [San Francisco] : HarperCollins. 1997, p. 134-35 |
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