Albert Camus
1) The fall
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Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searing study of modern amorality.--goodreads.
2) The stranger
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A young Algerian, Meursault, afflicted with a sort of aimless inertia, becomes embroiled in the petty intrigues of a local pimp and, somewhat inexplicably, ends up killing a man. Once he's imprisoned and eventually brought to trial, his crime, it becomes apparent, is not so much the arguably defensible murder he has committed as it is his deficient character. In the story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sun-drenched...
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A fictionalized autobiography, covering his youth in Algeria. It is filled with details of the white working class to which he belonged and there is the undercurrent of a boy's search for a father figure, his own killed in World War I. He describes the intervention of a school teacher who obtained for him a scholarship, first step on the road to the 1957 Nobel Prize for literature.
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Rebelión en Asturias relata la insurrección obrera de 1934 y la implacable represión del ejército enviado por la República para contenerla y que terminó por regar de sangre toda la región. Un año después de la sublevación, desde Argel y con solo 22 años, Albert Camus escribió esta obra de teatro como homenaje al espíritu de lucha del pueblo asturiano y a las más de 1500 personas que fueron asesinadas, en su mayor parte civiles. En palabras...
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The Stranger (French: L'Étranger [l‿e.tʁɑ̃.ʒe]), also published in English as The Outsider, is a 1942 novella written by French author Albert Camus. The first of Camus' novels published in his lifetime, the story follows Meursault, an indifferent settler in French Algeria, who, weeks after his mother's funeral, kills an unnamed Arab man in Algiers. The story is divided into two parts, presenting Meursault's first-person narrative before and...
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"Pienso que nuestra fraternidad, que se manifiesta en todos los planos, va mucho más lejos de lo que los dos pensamos y aun de lo que sentimos. Cada vez más seremos un incordio para la frivolidad de los explotadores de nuestra época, para los selectos pregoneros de uno y otro bando. Tanto mejor. Este nuevo combate apenas comienza, y con él, nuestra razón de existir. Al menos de ello estoy convencido... Es lo que siento y presiento."
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One of the most influential works of this century, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought. Influenced by works such as Don Juan and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on suicide; the question of living or not living in a universe devoid of order or meaning. With lyric eloquence, Albert Camus brilliantly posits a way out of despair, reaffirming the value of personal existence,...
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The Nobel Prize winners most influential and enduring political writings Albert Camus (19131960) is unsurpassed among writers for a body of work that animates the wonder and absurdity of existence. Committed Writings brings together, for the first time, thematically linked essays from across Camuss writing career that reflect the scope of his political thought. This pivotal collection embodies Camuss radical and unwavering commitment to upholding...
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El Extranjero es la primera novela del escritor francés Albert Camus, publicada en 1942. El protagonista, Meursault, es un ser indiferente a la realidad por resultarle absurda e inabordable. El progreso tecnológico le ha privado de la participación en las decisiones colectivas y le ha convertido en "extranjero" dentro de lo que debería ser su propio entorno.
10) Speaking Out
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Ce volume reunit les trente-quatre textes connus des prises de parole publiques d'Albert Camus, s'achevant sur la transcription inedite de son allocution au diner de L'Algerienne, le 13 novembre 1958 a Paris. D'une conference a l'autre, l'ecrivain diagnostique une "crise de l'homme", s'attache a redonner voix et dignite a ceux qui en ont ete prives par un demi-siecle de bruit et de fureur. C'est bien de civilisation qu'il s'agit ici. Pour Albert Camus,...
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The Nobel Prize winner's most influential and enduring personal writings, newly curated and introduced by acclaimed Camus scholar Alice Kaplan. Albert Camus (1913-1960) is unsurpassed among writers for a body of work that animates the wonder and absurdity of existence. Personal Writings brings together, for the first time, thematically-linked essays from across Camus's writing career that reflect the scope and depth of his interior life. Grappling...
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From a variety of masterfully rendered perspectives, these six stories depict people at painful odds with the world around them. A wife can only surrender to a desert night by betraying her husband. An artist struggles to honor his own aspirations as well as society's expectations of him. A missionary brutally converted to the worship of a tribal fetish is left with but an echo of his identity. Whether set in North Africa, Paris, or Brazil, the stories...
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For the first time in English, "Camus at Combat" presents all of Camus' World War II resistance and early postwar writings published in "Combat," the resistance newspaper where he served as editor-in-chief and editorial writer between 1944 and 1947. Paris is firing all its ammunition into the August night. Against a vast backdrop of water and stone, on both sides of a river awash with history, freedom's barricades are once again being erected. Once...
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By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution. For Albert Camus, the urge to revolt is one of the “essential dimensions” of human nature, manifested in man's timeless Promethean struggle against the conditions of his existence, as well as the popular uprisings against established orders throughout history. And yet, with an eye toward the French Revolution and its regicides and deicides,...
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In the small coastal city of Oran, Algeria, rats begin rising up from the filth only to die as bloody heaps in the streets. Shortly after, an outbreak of the bubonic plague erupts and envelops the human population. Albert Camus' The Plague is a brilliant and haunting rendering of human perseverance and futility in the face of a relentless terror born of nature.
16) A Happy Death
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In his first novel, A Happy Death, written when he was in his early twenties and retrieved from his private papers following his death in I960, Albert Camus laid the foundation for The Stranger, focusing in both works on an Algerian clerk who kills a man in cold blood. But he also revealed himself to an extent that he never would in his later fiction. For if A Happy Death is the study of a rule-bound being shattering the fetters of his existence,...
17) The plague
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[1991]
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Chaos prevails when the bubonic plague strikes the Algerian coastal city of Oran. A haunting tale of human resilience in the face of unrelieved horror, Camus' novel about a bubonic plague ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic of twentieth-century literature.
18) The stranger
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The day his mother dies, Meursault notices that it is very hot on the bus that is taking him from Algiers to the retirement home where his mother lived; so hot that he falls asleep. Later, while waiting for the wake to begin, the harsh electric lights in the room make him extremely uncomfortable, so he gratefully accepts the coffee the caretaker offers him and smokes a cigarette. The same burning sun that so oppresses him during the funeral walk will...