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meaningless death. Had he not written in The Myth of Sisyphus: « Ce qu’on appelle raison de vivre est en même temps une excellente raison de mourir. » [What one calls a reason to live for is at the same time an excellent reason to die for.] Albert Camus had many times refused to be associated with the main streams of existentialism of his epoch. As a matter of fact, in many of his writings he struggled to overcome the “absurd” paradoxes of human life. From this point of view, in the first contribution of this section, Niu Jingfan, from Shanghai University of Political Science and Law, commemorates Albert Camus’s lasting influence in China. Her article is followed by a conversation between Albert Camus and his friend Howard Mumma, a Methodist pastor, who relates it. Both had met in a spiritual quest during several summers in Paris in the 1950s.
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