The Rebel

Describe symbolism in The Rebel by Albert Camus

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In the section titled, Rebellion and Style, the author reasons that there is no such thing as entirely realistic art - that art by definition is a selective representation and/or shaping of certain elements of reality in order to create the sought-after unity described above. He suggests that the way that representation takes place is stylization - "... the simultaneous existence of reality and of the [artistic] mind that gives reality its form..." which, he adds, is what rebellion does - striving to strike the balance between presentation of plain fact and shaping that fact to define a new reality.

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The Rebel