The State of Siege (French: L'État de siège) is the fourth play by Albert Camus.

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The State of Siege is the fourth play by Albert Camus. The play by the Maribor Slovene National Theatre in 1955. Written in 1948, The State of Siege—the original sense is closer to state of emergency—is a play in three acts presenting the ...

The State of Siege (French: L'État de siège) is the fourth play by Albert Camus.

The play by the Maribor Slovene National Theatre in 1955

Written in 1948, The State of Siege—the original sense is closer to state of emergency—is a play in three acts presenting the arrival of plague, personified by a young opportunist, in sleepy Cadiz and the subsequent creation of a totalitarian regime through the manipulation of fear. In a piece written in 1948, in reply to criticisms from Gabriel Marcel, Camus defended his decision to set the play in Spain, and not in Eastern Europe, citing the ongoing oppression in Spain, France's collusion in it, and the Catholic Church's abandonment of Spanish Christians. ^[1]

The piece was first performed in October 1948, and was initially received poorly by critics and public, who had eagerly awaited the work, but expected a dramatisation of Camus's novel The Plague. While the two share a common background, the treatments are entirely different in tone. Although Camus himself was pleased with the work, critics remained unimpressed.

The State of Siege has remained almost constantly in print in French, and since 1958 in an English translation by Stuart Gilbert—in Caligula and Three Other Plays—with a foreword by Camus.

"Vous avez cru que tout pouvait se mettre en chiffres et en formules ! Mais dans votre belle nomenclature, vous avez oublié la rose sauvage, les signes du ciel, les visages d'été, la grande voix de la mer, les instants du déchirement et la colère des hommes ! [...] Au sein de vos plus apparentes victoires, vous voilà déjà vaincus, parce qu'il y a dans l'homme une force que vous ne réduirez pas, ignorante et victorieuse à tout jamais. C'est cette force qui va se lever et vous saurez alors que votre gloire était fumée."

---- Albert Camus, L'Etat de Siège (Gallimard, 1948)

"You thought everything could be put into figures and formulas! But in your beautiful nomenclature, you forgot the wild rose, the signs of the sky, the faces of summer, the great voice of the sea, the moments of the tearing and the wrath of men! ... In your most apparent victories, you are already vanquished, because there is in man a force that you will not reduce, ignorant and victorious forever. C "This force is going to rise and you will know when your glory was smoked."
---- Albert Camus, The State of Siege (Gallimard, 1948)

"你以為一切都可以進入數字和公式! 但在你美麗的名詞中, 你忘記了野玫瑰, 天空的徵兆, 夏天的臉孔, 海洋的偉大聲音, 撕裂的時刻和人類的憤怒[...]在你最明顯的勝利中, 在這裡 你已經被打敗了, 因為人類中有一股力量, 你不會減少, 無知和勝利永遠. 正是這種力量會崛起, 你就會知道你的榮耀是煙霧."

---- albert camus, 總部州()