Albert Caraco

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 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.

Biography Albert Caraco was born in Istanbul on 8 July 1919 to a Jewish family. 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. At the same year, Caraco and his family fled to South America due to Nazi threat and approaching World War II. In the early 1940s, Caraco published a series of poems and plays.

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); English translation by R. P. A. Delpeuch, KDP (2025) 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) Post mortem (1984) Semainier de l'incertitude (1994) La luxure et la mort (2000) Mystère d'Israël (2004).