After reading this booklet, no more confused book and literature, culture and entertainment, museum attendance and knowledge of the arts, education and level of knowledge. But to draw the conclusion of a terrible decline.
What emerges in these pages, well written, moreover, it is the agony of wit, artistic greatness, the sense of beauty, all these qualities which made the pride of France and of Europe.
With rare relevance, Camus points the core issue: time. His views on the necessary duration to cultivate, are decisive. They will refer.