Albert Camus
Albert Camus is among the most significant French writers of the twentieth century. His novels, The Plague and The Outsider, have a timeless power and appeal and are studied all over the world, and his philosophical work has had an enduring influe...
Albert Camus
Few would question that Albert Camus (1913-1960), novelist, playwright, philosopher and journalist, is a major cultural icon. His widely quoted works have led to countless movie adaptions, graphic novels, pop songs, and even t-shirts. In this Very...
Albert Camus
Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, encompassing philosophy, literature, politics and history, John Foley examines the full breadth of Camus' ideas to provide a comprehensive and rigorous study of his political and philosophical thought and a ...
Albert Camus
Like many others of my generation, I first read Camus in high school. I carried him in my backpack while traveling across Europe, I carried him into (and out of) relationships, and I carried him into (and out of) difficult periods of my life. More...
Fransk-algeriern Albert Camus
I denna bok om Albert Camus liv och verk synliggörs bredden i hans arbete. 1935 grundade han en teater i Alger, var såväl regissör som skådespelare. Han ägnade sig där även åt förlagsarbete, journalistik, utgav två ungdomsverk, skrev parallellt "de tre Absurderna": romanen Främlingen, essän Myten om Sisyfos, pjäsen Caligula. Efter drygt ett års vistelse i en fransk alpby på grund av lungtuberkulos blev han hösten 1943 redaktör på förlaget Gallimard i Paris och chefredaktör för motståndsrörelsens tidning Combat. I krigets efterdyningar utgav han ännu en triptyk: romanen Pesten 1947, pjäsen De rättfärdiga 1949 och den stora essän Människans revolt 1951.
Albert Camus the Algerian
In these original readings of Albert Camus' novels, short stories, and political essays, David Carroll concentrates on Camus' conflicted relationship with his Algerian background and finds important critical insights into questions of justice, the...
Albert Camus as Political Thinker
Albert Camus as Political Thinker
Albert Camus: The Outsider - Albert Camus Paperback Book
Albert Camus: The Outsider - Albert Camus Paperback Book [Bok / Häftad]
Albert Camus in the 21st Century
In the first decade of a new century, this collection of bilingual essays examines Camus's continuing popularity for a new generation of readers. In crucial respects, the world Camus knew has changed beyond all recognition: decolonization, the fal...
Albert Camus and the Human Crisis
A renowned scholar investigates the "human crisis" that Albert Camus confronted in his world and in ours, producing a brilliant study of Camus's life and influence for those readers who, in Camus's words, "cannot live without dialog...
Albert Camus - Varken Offer Eller Bödel
Vi befinner oss i en värld där vi måste välja mellan att vara offer eller bödel inget annat. - Albert Camus skriver detta i sin dagbok hösten 1945. Så vitt han kan se innebär detta i längden att vi alla blir offer. Camus vill bereda en tredje väg, en väg där människor tillåts vandra som annat än offer eller bödel. I Jenny Maria Nilssons personligt hållna biografi görs nedslag vid exempelvis tuberkulosen som periodvis hotar Albert Camus liv, hans avgudan av sin mor, den spanskättade Hélène Sintes - som han uppfattar som en kristusgestalt, hur faderns död på slagfältet för ett land han aldrig känt införlivas i Camus politiska arbete, kärleken till och förmågan att bli ett med solen, havet och naturen, åren som journalist och hans inställning till journalistikens uppgift, filosofin i de stora romanerna Främlingen, Pesten och Fallet, och hur han kunde utmålas som förrädare av sina samtida franska intellektuella."De senaste åren har flertalet av hans böcker getts ut i nyöversättningar, och föreliggande bok kontextualiserar dem väl. Camus såg sig själv som en omodern och otidsenlig författare. Kanske just det gör hans författarskap, där de djupt mänskliga och evigt återkommande frågorna ställs, ständigt aktuellt. Albert Camus Varken offer eller bödel är en bok som behövs." - Isak Adolfsson, Kulturdelen.com
Albert Camus: Elements of a Life
Like many others of my generation, I first read Camus in high school. I carried him in my backpack while traveling across Europe, I carried him into (and out of) relationships, and I carried him into (and out of) difficult periods of my life. More...
Speaking Out
A new collection of Albert Camus' most brilliant speeches and lectures 'Freedom is dangerous, as hard to live as it is exalting...' This definitive new collection of Albert Camus' public speeches and lectures gives a compelling insight into one of...
Short Guide to Towns Without a Past
90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Best known for his existentialist novel The Outsider, set in French-occupied Algeria, Albert Camus was profoundly influenced by the landscapes, towns and traditions of his youth. Selected her...
The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
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, he shows how inevitably the course of revolution leads to tyranny. As old regimes throughout the world collapse, The Rebel resonates as an ardent, eloquent, and supremely rational voice of conscience for our tumultuous times. Translated from the French by Anthony Bower. 'The Rebel is a piece of reasoning in the great tradition of French logic....But what is so exhilarating about Camus's essay is that here is the voice of a man of unshakable decency.' -- Atlantic'Camus's book is one of the extremely few that express the contemporary
Happy Death
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, it is also a remarkably candid portrait of its author as a young man.As the novel follows the protagonist, Patrice Mersault, to his victim's house -- and then, fleeing, in a journey that takes him through stages of exile, hedonism, privation, and death -it gives us a glimpse into the imagination of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. For here is the young Camus himself, in love with the sea and sun, enraptured by women yet disdainful of romantic love, and already formulating the philosophy of action and moral responsibility
Resistance, Rebellion, and Death
Resistance, Rebellion & Death
La chute
La chute
L'etranger
L'etranger
Le mythe de Sisyphe
Le mythe de Sisyphe
La chute
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L'etranger
L' Etranger
Outsider
Albert Camus' laconic masterpiece about a Frenchman who murders an Arab in colonial Algeria is famous in its time for diagnosing a state of alienation and spiritual exhaustion which summed up the mood of the mid-twentieth century. Today, more than...
La peste
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La peste
La Peste
Plague
The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way to the leth...
The Fall
NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR - One of the most widely read novels of all time--from one of the best-known writers of all time--about a lawyer from Paris who brilliantly illuminates the human condition. Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searing study of modern amorality.
Helen's Exile
"The Greeks never said that the limit could not he overstepped. They said it existed and that whoever dared to exceed it was mercilessly struck down. Nothing in present history can contradict them." Written in the aftermath of the Second...
Committed Writings
'To create today means to create dangerously' This new collection contains some of Camus' most brilliant political writing as he reflects on moral responsibility and the role of the artist in the world. Letters to a German Friend, written and publ...
Stranger
Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed -the nakedness of man faced with the absurd.- First published in 1946; now in a new translation by Matthew Ward.
The Stranger: Introduction by Keith Gore
The masterpiece of Nobel Prize winner Albert Camus, now in a striking American English translation, The Stranger remains vital for its unsettling insights into the impossibility of moral certainty in the face of violence. 'Matthew Ward has done Camus and us a great service. The Stranger is now a different and better novel for its American readers; it is now our classic as well as France's.'--Chicago Sun-Times Since it was first published in English, in 1946, Albert Camus's first novel, The Stranger (L'etranger), has had a profound impact on millions of American readers. Through this story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sundrenched Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed 'the nakedness of man faced with the absurd.' Now, in this illuminating translation, extraordinary for its exactitude and clarity, the original intent of The Stranger is made more immediate. This haunting novel has been given a new life for generations to come.