Plague, Fall, Exile And The Kingdom And Selected Essays

Camus, Albert

ISBN 10: 1857152786 / ISBN 13: 9781857152784

Verlag: Everyman, 2004

Beschreibung

2004, hardcover with dust jacket, good condition , with dust jacket, good condition , with dust jacket, good condition.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 235475885

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Plague, Fall, Exile And The Kingdom And Selected Essays
• Verlag: Everyman
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1857152786
• ISBN-13: 9781857152784
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag

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Inhaltsangabe

Once overshadowed by Sartre, Camus has proved the more durable of the two most celebrated French writer-philosophers of the last century. This collection of his work makes the reasons for his survival self-evident. In prose of bleak but piercing clarity, Camus cuts to the heart of each story he tells. After The Outsider (also published in Everyman) The Plague is his most powerful novel, at once an account of heroic attempts to contain an epidemic in Algeria and a parable of the human condition. In The Fall a once-successful Parisian lawyer tells his own tale of decline and self-discovery, Exile and the Kingdom collect together a number of short stories which explore the existentialist predicament from various viewpoints. This volume also contains two important essays - The Myth of Sisyphus and Reflections on the Guillotine - which reflect on the themes developed in the fiction.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Born in Algeria in 1913, Albert Camus published The Stranger-- now one of the most widely read novels of this century-- in 1942. Celebrated in intellectual circles, Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. On January 4, 1960, he was killed in a car accident.