Analyzing Albert Camus 'Banquet Speech'

The Banquet speech given by the Albert Camus on receiving the Nobel Prize mainly focuses on the art of writing, what is writing all about? In the speech, Camus believes that every individual wants to be famous for strong reasons and as similar he also wants to be recognized but feels very surprised by the people decision irrespective of his background, identity. Albert feels nervous and do not know how to express his feelings after accepting such a great honour.
Camus describes that for him art is his life but he did not placed it above anything else. In other words, Camus could not place party over people. He would not elevate art to a special status above the political. As he says in his Nobel Speech, “I cannot live without my art. But I have never placed it above everything. If, on the other hand, I need it, it is because it cannot be separated from my fellow men. It obliges the artist not to keep himself apart; it subjects him to the most humble and the most universal truth.” In addition to this, he defines art as a frame of common joys offered to large proportion of people. Moreover, true artist are the individuals who put their efforts for those who make …show more content…
But his generation will not reform, but also will prevent the world from destroying itself. Camus defines the truth as mysterious, elusive and always to be conquered and liberty as dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. Camus concerns display defining characteristic of his sense of writing as a political act which he honed as a journalist for leftist and anti-colonial newspapers.
It can be concluded that According to Camus, writer can be assured that community of people will support him, if he accepts the two duties which honour his profession, to serve truth and to serve freedom. Believing strongly in the social duty of the artist, Camus describes his writing as a “commitment to bear witness to “an insane