Albert Camus
1) 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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"Although 'The Myth of Sisyphus' poses mortal problems, it sums itself up for me as a lucid invitation to live and to create, in the very midst of the desert. It has hence been thought possible to append to this philosophical argument a series of essays, of a kind I have never ceased writing, which are somewhat more marginal to my other books...The unity of this book, that I should like to be apparent to American reader as it is to me, resides in...
10) The fall
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Vintage Books
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1991.
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English
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Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searing study of modern amorality.
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Vintage Books
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2007.
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English
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These six stories, written at the height of Camus' artistic powers, all 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, these...
13) A happy death
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Cahiers volume 1
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1972.
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English
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A young man searches throughout life for the key to confronting death without fear.
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Princeton University Press
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[2006]
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English
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Presenting Camus' World War II wartime journalism published in 'Combat', the resistance newspaper where he worked from 1944 to 1947, these articles and editorials show how his thinking evolved from support of a revolutionary transformation of postwar society to a wariness of the radical left.
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Vintage International, Vintage Books, a Division of Random House LLC
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2020.
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English
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"Perhaps the most important philosopher of the twentieth century, Albert Camus (1913-1960), winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, is more relevant today than ever before. Personal Writing brings together, for the first time, thematically-linked essays from across Camus's writing career that reflect the scope of his personal preoccupations. Featuring a foreword by acclaimed Camus scholar Alice Kaplan (author of Looking for the Stranger), this volume...
20) The guest
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Creative Education
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[1990]
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English
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An Algerian schoolteacher develops a strange alliance with the Arab prisoner temporarily left in his charge, giving him the chance to select his own destiny.