Albert Camus and Prometheus

  • Cécile Voisset-Veysseyre Université Paris XII Créteil Valdemarine
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Keywords: Albert Camus, Prometheus, rebellion, wilderness, stone, liberation, artist.

Abstract

The myth of Prometheus talks about rebellion as a beginning. The Titan who stood up to Zeus and stole fire in order to bring it to men became a model of humanity, a figure of a saving rebelliousness and a symbol of hope in human race. It is the story of a gesture in the very middle of wilderness where the hero is tied to a rock from which he is supposed to be untied. Albert Camus’s Prometheus belongs to a laicized story of creation. “What is an artist?” asks the writer, who universalizes a Greek and Oriental myth; the modeling, the titanic mark of the creature, challenges our understanding of reality through art.
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Published
2012-11-15
How to Cite
Voisset-Veysseyre, C. (2012). Albert Camus and Prometheus. Amaltea. Revista de Mitocrítica, 4, 101-111. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_AMAL.2012.v4.40590
Section
Articles | Thematic Issue

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