HUMA 2640 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Albert Camus, Simone De Beauvoir, Existentialism
29 Apr 2016
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Author was born in 1920; was 30 when book was written. Book was written at a point 5 years after the second world war. By the time ww2 was over, more than 40 million people were killed because of the war. Not just the people exterminated in the camps. In 2013 the pop"m of canada was 33 million; so more people than the population of. Canada just a few years ago, were killed in ww2. One woman made her students learn 40 lines of poetry every week so that her students will have an internal library when they are taken political prisoner. Know shakespeare"s sonnet 73 that ends with the 10 most signi cant words in the english language. No one would have believed at that time, the number of people that were going to die. Monday, february 8, 2016 in the second world war: we don"t know how something is going to end.
