Summer in Algiers
by Albert Camus
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In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder Allen Lane's vision of good books for all'. three essays evoke different aspects of the place - the title essay The Minotaur and The Return to Tipasa.Tags
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This book contains three of the essays that appear at the end of 'The Myth of Sisyphus' (or at least the edition that I have). They are delightful prose poems demonstrating how the landscapes and people of Algiers, Oran and Tipasa (places from Camus' childhood)influenced Camus' absurdist thought. The middle essay ('The Minotaur') is a favourite of mine, outlining the struggle as the people (and even the stones) of Oran strive to avoid becoming part of the desert around them, trying to maintain their virtue in the face of beautiful and bleak nature. I think that Camus' philosophy is at its most illuminating when approached obliquely, and these essays certainly do that. An excellent way of dipping your toe into Camus' essays, before show more challenging the longer (and denser) stuff. show less
A fascinating book. Musing of the author's visit in Algiers and other essays. I liked his style of writings, full of life enjoyment. Marvelous!
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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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- Summer in Algiers - The Minotaur - The Return to Tipasa
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