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

Again in 2016, New York Metropolis staged a month-long fes­ti­val cel­e­brat­ing Albert Camus’ his­toric vis­it to NYC in 1946. One occasion within the fes­ti­val fea­tured actor Vig­go Mortensen giv­ing a learn­ing of Camus’ lec­ture,“La Crise de l’homme” (“The Human Cri­sis”) at Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty–the exact same place the place Camus deliv­ered the lec­ture 70 years earlier–all the way down to the very day (March 28, 1946). The learn­ing was ini­tial­ly cap­tured on a mobile phone, and broad­solid stay utilizing Face­e-book stay video. However then got here a extra pol­ished report­ing, cour­tesy of Columbi­a’s Mai­son Française. Observe that Mortensen takes the stage across the 11:45 mark. You may learn a tran­script of “The Human Cri­sis” right here.

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Observe: An ear­li­er ver­sion of this submit appeared on our web site in April, 2016.

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Relat­ed Con­tent:

Albert Camus on the Respon­si­bil­i­ty of the Artist: To “Cre­ate Dan­ger­ous­ly” (1957)

An Ani­mat­ed Intro­duc­tion to Albert Camus’ Exis­ten­tial­ism, a Phi­los­o­phy Mak­ing a Come­again in Our Dys­func­tion­al Occasions

What’s Albert Camus’ The Plague About? An Intro­duc­tion

Hear Albert Camus Learn the Well-known Open­ing Pas­sage of The Stranger (1947)