Camus eta Sartreren eragina zenbait euskal idazlerengan

Abstract

Together with Unamuno, both A. Camus and J-P. Sartre had a lot of influence from the 50s of the last century on Basque reduced intelligentsia, that is, on the Franciscans (first, on Bastarrika) and on Txillardegi, Juan San Martín, E. López Adán and Joxe Azurmendi, among others. This influence was crucial to move from the traditional Basque culture based on the Catholic faith to a more secular Basque culture. At first, Camus was the most influential; Sartre came later. This work starts by exploring the personal and intellectual relationship between Camus and Sartre; then I present the main themes of their impact dealing with existentialism, religion and morals. And along with it, I follow the debate about the legitimacy of violence that took place in Paris after World War II. The context was communists’s revolutionary goals: If it succeeded in Russia why would it not succeed in France? In 1946, PCF (the French Communist Party) had 800,000 members, and its influence was enormous. After presenting López Adán’s view, the paper ends by gathering some ideas by Joxe Azurmendi on the topic of violence. Sartre and Camus were not religiously dogmatic like Gandhi. The morals needed with respect to violence needs to be built; and it will always be because there are no tablets of the ten commandments, and the answer corresponds to to each society in its own time.