Nobel Prize Literature Laureate Speeches by Michalle

Question 1

Which French writer said this at the 1957 Nobel Banquet? "Often he who has chosen the fate of the artist because he felt himself to be different soon realizes that he can maintain neither his art nor his difference unless he admits that he is like the others. The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge."

Camus

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