Translated by dwight macdonald (1 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 23 pp. First published "serially" in "Liberation" in 1946; this copy reprinted in 1960 from Liberation. Following the Introduction, Contents divided into 8 unnumbered sections: [1\ "The Century of Fear"; [2] "Saving Our Skins"; [3] "The Self-Deception of the Socialists"; [4] "Parody of Revolution"; [5] "International Democracy and Dictatorship"; [6] "The World Speeds Up"; [7["A New Social Contract"; [8] "Towards Sociability". // FROM inside front cover: :[This work by Albert Camus] is reprinted from the February 1960 issue of LIBERATION. It first appeared, serially, in the fall of1946, in COMBAT, the daily newspaper of the French Resistance, which Camus helped edit during the Nazi Occupation and for a short time after the war. It was translated [into English] by Dwight Macdonald, and published in the July-August 1947 issue of POLITICS." // FROM Amazon: "Camus' essays deal with the future of politics & human society in the era of modern warfare & totalitarian states." // Saddled-stitched cream pamphlet (2 staples, lower one separated from cover, else spine Firm, NO creases); light age-toning; tiny chip missing at top right corner of cover and following text page; rear cover top left corner small curl and 1 3/4" horizontal soft curls along top edges of front and back covers, away from fore-edge; 3/4" closed tear down from top edge front cover at 7/16" away from top right spine corner (Now backed with Archival tape); Previous owner inscription, recording of gift ". . . from mother, Christmas, 1961". All-told, in very good condition for a pamphlet printed 65 years ago. The way to read a Political essay authored by the Nobel Prize winning Author.…