Albert Caraco

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| birth_place = Istanbul, Ottoman Empire

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| nationality = French, Uruguayan

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| school_tradition = Continental philosophy, Philosophical pessimism, existentialism

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Albert Caraco (8 July 1919 – 7 September 1971) was a French-Uruguayan philosopher, writer, essayist and poet of Turkish Jewish descent. He is known for his two major works, Post Mortem (1968) and posthumously published Bréviaire du chaos (1982). He is often compared to the philosophers and writers such as Emil Cioran, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Nicolás Gómez Dávila and Friedrich Nietzsche.{{cite web | url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1818603.Breviario_del_caos | title=Breviario del caos | access-date=29 May 2014}}

Biography

Albert Caraco was born Istanbul on 8 July 1919 to a Jewish family.{{cite book | title=Le Bréviaire du Chaos | publisher=L'Age d'Homme | author=Caraco, Albert | year=1982 | location=Lausanne | isbn=2825109894}} His family relocated in Vienna, Prague and later in Berlin, before settling in Paris. He attended the Lycée Janson de Sailly and graduated from Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales in 1939.{{cite web | url=http://illusioncity.net/albert-caraco/ | title=Albert Caraco biography | publisher=illusioncity.net | date=17 June 2012 | access-date=29 May 2014}} At the same year, Caraco and his family fled to South America due to Nazi threat and approaching World War II. His family received Uruguayan citizenship and converted to Catholicism.{{cite web | url=http://albertcaraco.free.fr/ | title=Albert Caraco | access-date=29 May 2014 |language= French}} In early 1940s, Caraco published a series of poems and plays.

In 1946, Caraco returned to Paris, where he spent the rest of his life. Inspired by monastic discipline, he devoted himself to writing, although he renounced his Catholic faith. His mother's death in 1969, which was widely documented in his work, Post mortem, had a negative effect on his state. On 7 September 1971, following his father's death, he committed suicide. Most of his unreleased works were posthumously published by L'Age d'Homme publishing company.

An article regarding Caraco's works and life, written by Louis Nucéra, was published on 4 May 1984 in Le Monde.{{cite news| url=http://albertcaraco.free.fr/agoniesdunreprouve.htm | title=Les agonies d'un réprouvé | newspaper=Le Monde | date=4 May 1984 | author=Nucéra, Louis |language= French}}

Selected works

Le livre des combats de l'âme (1949)
L'école des intransigeants. Rébellion pour l'ordre (1952)
Le désirable et le sublime. Phénoménologie de l'Apocalypse (1953)
Foi, valeur et besoin, Paris 1957;
Apologie d'Israël, vol. 1: Plaidoyer pour les indéfendables (1957)
Apologie d'Israël, vol. 2: La marche à travers les ruines (1957)
Huit essais sur le mal (1963, 1979)
Le tombeau de l'histoire (1966, 1976)
Les races et les classes (1967)
Post mortem (1968); [https://web.archive.org/web/20240517012115/https://terrorhousemag.com/tag/post-mortem/ English translation] serialized in Terror House Magazine (2024)
La luxure et la mort: relations de l'ordre et de la sexualité (1968)
L'ordre et le sexe (1970)
Obéissance ou servitude? (1974)
Ma confession, Lausanne (1975)
L'homme de lettres: un art d'écrire (1975)
Bréviaire du chaos (1982)
Supplément à la "Psychopathia sexualis" (1983)
Ecrits sur la religion (1984)
Semainier de l'incertitude (1994)
La luxure et la mort (2000)
Mystère d'Israël (2004).

References

External links

[http://illusioncity.net/albert-caraco/ An Essay about Albert Caraco]
{{cite news| url=http://albertcaraco.free.fr/agoniesdunreprouve.htm | title=Les agonies d'un réprouvé | newspaper=Le Monde | date=4 May 1984 | author=Nucéra, Louis |language= French}}
[http://caraco.canalblog.com/ Studia caracoana] by Philippe Billé (in French).
Romain Delpeuch, [http://p2.storage.canalblog.com/25/21/1366039/111029471.pdf Albert Caraco: philosophie, littérature et prophétisme]{{Dead link|date=August 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, 2015 (in French)
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Pessimism/comments/13eklvf/albert_caracos_breviary_of_chaos_fragments/ English Translation of Albert Caraco's Breviary of Chaos & Fragments]

Category:1919 births

Category:1971 suicides

Category:1971 deaths

Category:20th-century French philosophers

Category:Atheist philosophers

Category:Existentialists

Category:Anti-natalists

Category:French ethicists

Category:20th-century French Jews

Category:Turkish expatriates in Austria

Category:Expatriates in Czechoslovakia

Category:Turkish expatriates in Germany