Plague, Fall, Exile And The Kingdom And Selected Essays: Albert Camus - Rilegato

Camus, Albert

 
9781857152784: Plague, Fall, Exile And The Kingdom And Selected Essays: Albert Camus
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ISBN 10: 1857152786 ISBN 13: 9781857152784
Casa editrice: Everyman, 2004

Sinossi

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.

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Informazioni sull?autore

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.

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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.

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Editore
Everyman
Data di pubblicazione
2004
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1857152786
ISBN 13 
9781857152784
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
704
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Altre edizioni note dello stesso titolo

9781400042555: The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays: Introduction by David Bellos

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  1400042550 ISBN 13:  9781400042555
Casa editrice: Everyman's Library, 2004
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