Images of exile in the work of Albert Camus

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Rita Paiva

Abstract

By pointing to the plurality of images of exile in Camusian work, this text seeks to reflect on two of them. First, it addresses the image of an ontological exile, whose mark seals the human and defines its condition. Second, it seeks to problematize the refusal or difficulty to assume this reality, which imposes itself on every conscious being, operating a different image of exile resulting from human deliberations. Thus, this movement establishes the inability to understand that the exile that is constitutive to us – the ontological exile – simultaneously separates us from the world and defines our belonging to the Cosmos.

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Rita Paiva, Federal University of São Paulo

Professor of Philosophy at the Federal University of são Paulo.

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Images of exile in the work of Albert Camus. EXILIUM Journal of Contemporary Studies, [S. l.], v. 3, n. 4, p. 109–138, 2022. DOI: 10.34024/exilium.v3i4.12910. Disponível em: https://periodicos.unifesp.br/index.php/exilium/article/view/12910. Acesso em: 5 dec. 2025.