Why Camus Was Obsessed with Smiling Mouths (opens in new tab)

In Camus’s works, we see an obsession with the human mouth, especially mouths that are smiling or laughing. Often, the smiles and laughter are juxtaposed with gravity and violence. Here we take a look at how Camus uses the mouth, smiling or grave (and, bizarrely, sometimes both at the same time), in order to […]