“The Human Crisis” by Albert Camus, 70 years later

Viggo Mortenson gives a dramatic reading of Albert Camus’ 1946 speech.

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From Maison Française:

Albert Camus originally delivered this lecture on “La Crise de l’homme” on March 28, 1946, to a very full house at Columbia’s McMillan Theatre, on his first and only trip to the United States. 70 years later, to celebrate Camus’s visit to New York and Columbia, his lecture will be delivered in a dramatic reading by the actor Viggo Mortensen, in a version newly translated into English by Alice Kaplan.The event will be introduced by Souleymane Bachir Diagne and by Alice Kaplan, who will share new research from her forthcoming book, Looking for the Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic, to bring alive Camus’ U.S. visit and provide a context for his lecture. Following the reading there will be a panel discussion about Albert Camus in New York. After the reading, Bachir Diagne and Alice Kaplan will be joined by Viggo Mortensen for a panel discussion about Albert Camus’ influence, his impressions of the U.S., and his reception in this country as a leading voice of the postwar generation of French intellectuals.