WORLD AND TRUTH OF LITERATURE: CAMUS URGING RECONCILIATION

Text topic: Literature and Truth

Text author: Предраг Крстић

The article seeks to situate motivationally Camus’ vision of “corrected creation” in literary and ideological controversies of his time. Relying on systematically unrepresented but numerous and explicit reflections on the status of literary and the role of artistic practice, it also intends to point to the theoretical argumenation and aesthetic justification of such a vision. Conclusion is that the seemingly reluctant Camus’ position is the product of a conscious decision - and its implementation - that the task of the artist is primarily to understand and, contrary to the subversive doctrines of the salvation, with his rebellious announcement of considerate revival in the name of justice and beauty, to creatively testify contradictions of his own time and advocate perhaps unconceivable comprehensive reconciliation.