Welcome to the New York City festival in 2016 that celebrated Albert Camus’ historic visit to NYC in 1946! One of the highlights was actor Viggo Mortensen giving a reading of Camus’ lecture, “La Crise de l’homme” (“The Human Crisis”) at Columbia University. The event took place on the exact day 70 years after Camus delivered the lecture in the same location. Initially recorded on a cell phone and broadcast live via Facebook, a polished recording by Columbia’s Maison Française is now available. You can watch the reading, with Mortensen taking the stage at the 11:45 mark, and read the transcript of “The Human Crisis” here.
Exciting news! “The Human Crisis” will be added to our collection, 1,000 Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free.
Don’t forget that an earlier version of this post was published on our site in April of 2016.
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