The Adulterous Woman
by Albert Camus
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Camus's writing confronts the great philosophical dilemmas of our time with piercing clarity. These three powerful and evocative stories are heavy with the weight of the human condition, and rich with atmosphere. In them, an ageing labourer, a woman travelling in North Africa with her husband, and a schoolteacher tasked with transporting a prisoner each face their own moral crises.Tags
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Three seemingly unrelated short stories dealing with separate moral dilemmas. Camus writes beautifully about the courage to deal with moral issues, the struggle, and imperfect choices.
Descriptive writing, thought-provoking, clear and challenging... I am not going to tell you the stories. Don't want to spoil or influence interpretations which will be personal for everyone.
Descriptive writing, thought-provoking, clear and challenging... I am not going to tell you the stories. Don't want to spoil or influence interpretations which will be personal for everyone.
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Born in 1913 in Algeria, Albert Camus was a French novelist, dramatist, and essayist. He was deeply affected by the plight of the French during the Nazi occupation of World War II, who were subject to the military's arbitrary whims. He explored the existential human condition in such works as L'Etranger (The Outsider, 1942) and Le Mythe de Sisyphe show more (The Myth of Sisyphus, 1942), which propagated the philosophical notion of the "absurd" that was being given dramatic expression by other Theatre of the Absurd dramatists of the 1950s and 1960s. Camus also wrote a number of plays, including Caligula (1944). Much of his work was translated into English. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. Camus died in an automobile accident in 1960. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- La Femme adultère
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- La Femme adultère
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