See Albert Camus’ Ancient Lecture, “The Human Disaster,” Carried out by way of Actor Viggo Mortensen

Again in 2016, New York Town staged a month-long fes­ti­val cel­e­brat­ing Albert Camus’ his­toric vis­it to NYC in 1946. One tournament within the fes­ti­val fea­tured actor Vig­pass Mortensen giv­ing a learn­ing of Camus’ lec­ture,“Los angeles Crise de l’homme” (“The Human Cri­sis”) at Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty–the exact same position the place Camus deliv­ered the lec­ture 70 years previous–right down to the very day (March 28, 1946). The learn­ing was once ini­tial­ly cap­tured on a mobile phone, and large­forged reside the use of Face­e-book reside video. However then got here a extra pol­ished file­ing, cour­tesy of Columbi­a’s Mai­son Française. Observe that Mortensen takes the degree across the 11:45 mark. You’ll learn a tran­script of “The Human Cri­sis” right here.

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Observe: An ear­li­er ver­sion of this publish seemed on our website in April, 2016.

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