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Camus: A Stranger in the City | Albert Camus on New York

Stephen Petrus, urban historian, curator and author of the acclaimed Folk City: New York and the American Folk Revival (Oxford University Press, 2015) and legendary singer-songwriter Eric Andersen, whose thirty albums include the recently recorded Shadow and Light of Albert Camus (Meyer Records, 2014), will read and comment on Camus’ impressions of his 1946 visit. Camus chronicled his observations in a notebook, published subsequently as American Journals. In this sprightly mix of whimsical impressions and deeper thoughts, Camus reflects upon the grandeur of America, an affluent nation seemingly unscathed by the war, in contrast to a devastated Europe. After his return to France, Camus meditated again on his experience overseas, focusing on his time in New York in a short essay titled “Rains of New York.”











When: Sun., Apr. 10, 2016 at 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Where: Bowery Poetry
308 Bowery

Price: Free
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Stephen Petrus, urban historian, curator and author of the acclaimed Folk City: New York and the American Folk Revival (Oxford University Press, 2015) and legendary singer-songwriter Eric Andersen, whose thirty albums include the recently recorded Shadow and Light of Albert Camus (Meyer Records, 2014), will read and comment on Camus’ impressions of his 1946 visit. Camus chronicled his observations in a notebook, published subsequently as American Journals. In this sprightly mix of whimsical impressions and deeper thoughts, Camus reflects upon the grandeur of America, an affluent nation seemingly unscathed by the war, in contrast to a devastated Europe. After his return to France, Camus meditated again on his experience overseas, focusing on his time in New York in a short essay titled “Rains of New York.”

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