EWL 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Existentialism, French Communist Party
28 Jun 2021
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L"etranger translated to the stranger in america and the outsider in the uk. Outsider: out of the group, society cast out. Hold court in a caf talking about existentialism. He was a pied-noir = black foot = european colonists and it"s descendants that settled as farmers and labour. Colonizers were poor but on top, socially, of arabs. 7th of november of 1913: he was born. Family had been a long time in algeria. They move to algiers and she cleans houses. Camus loved her deeply and was aware of her sacrifices. He was a soccer prodigy which was the key out of poverty. At 17 he had tuberculosis and he never recovered. He is not the image of a colonizer. He goes to the university of algers 1933. Covers a famine provoked by the colo government. 1939: bouissevelle: a pied-noir runs into two arabs in the beach, picks up a fight, arab has a knife.
