“To create today means to create dangerously. Every publication
is a deliberate act, and that act makes us vulnerable to the passions
of a century that forgives nothing.”
In
1957, Nobel Prize-winning philosopher Albert Camus gave a speech
entitled “Create Dangerously,” effectively a call to arms for
artists, in particular those who came from an immigrant background,
like he did. Camus understood the necessity of those making art as a
part of civil society. A bold cry for artistic freedom and
responsibility, his words today remain as timely as ever. In this new
translation, Camus’s message, available as a stand-alone little
book for the first time, will resonate with a new generation of
writers and artists.
