Lecture

Conference in French by Yiannis Prelorentzos, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Athens: “ La Méditerranée au cœur de la vie et de l’œuvre d’Albert Camus ”, organized in collaboration with the Department of French and European Studies of the University of Cyprus. Thursday May 5 at 7 p.m. at the French Institute of Cyprus.

Unlike members of his family (especially his brother) and the neighborhood in which he grew up, Camus, in a constant process of maturation, conceived and lived his life, being constantly on critical alert, as a journey in three different forms, sometimes in parallel sometimes in rotation: love, travels and writing: theatrical, fictional and philosophical. The lecture will highlight the astonishing consequences of this opening, both negative (Camus often felt painfully lonely) and positive: he shaped his life as a work of art, unfolding his creativity as unabashedly as possible. All this in the context of a well-meaning individualism (against the vulgar manifestations of narcissism). In this journey, the Mediterranean and its symbolism occupy a central place.