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Reflections on the guillotine

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Reflections on the guillotine
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Already during his lifetime, Albert Camus was called "the Conscience of the West", and was awarded the Nobel Prize for "an important literary work that illuminates with clear seriousness the problems of human conscience in our time". Camus's rejection of cruelty and violence is evidenced in both his life and his writings. In the essay "Reflections on the Guillotine," published when France still used the death penalty, he speaks of its ineffectiveness, views it as a relic of the past. In "Swedish speeches", delivered at the awarding of the Nobel Prize and at the University of Uppsala, Camus discusses the role of the writer in the world, the purpose of art and the vocation of the creator to serve society, without succumbing to lies and brute force. "Letters to a German Friend," written during World War II, when Camus worked as an editor of an underground newspaper, has been described by the author himself as "a documentary account of the struggle against violence."
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