Algerian Chronicles by Albert CamusMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
In this volume, a heartbroken but hopeful Camus pleads for a new Algeria. It is an Algeria freed from colonialism but with strong ties with France and the West. Spiritually, it maintains it's Mediterranean and Eastern diversity. All Algerians, Arab, French, and Berber would share the homeland in harmony and brotherhood. In these pages, he also begs for the lives of innocent civilian victims of whatever race. Unfortunately, his voice was not heard or he was laughed to scorn by the fanatics on both sides of the Algerian Crisis. Perhaps it is well that his life was cut short in 1960 in a car accident. Had he seen the satanic horrors of 1962, he probably would have died from grief.
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