Selected Essays and Notebooks
by Albert Camus
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This selection from his essays. Lyrical and Critical, and from his private notebooks aims to present Camus as a writer and literary critic, as well as Camus the individual.Tags
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After his death in a car accident at the age of 46 Albert Camus left behind a small number of published works and an unpublished draft of Le Premier Homme.
Selected Essays and Notebooks very usefully collects numerous and disparate essays as well as fascinating extracts from his notebooks. The latter include notes regarding La Peste and L'Étranger, for example, as well as a good selection of other disparate observations.
Among the essays are such treasures as Summer In Algiers with its eerie presage of L'Étranger, and his polite but dissenting review of Sartre's La Nausée. In this Camus remarks: "the realisation that life is absurd cannot be an end in itself but only a beginning".
This is an invaluable colection of material which would show more otherwise be very difficult to access. show less
Selected Essays and Notebooks very usefully collects numerous and disparate essays as well as fascinating extracts from his notebooks. The latter include notes regarding La Peste and L'Étranger, for example, as well as a good selection of other disparate observations.
Among the essays are such treasures as Summer In Algiers with its eerie presage of L'Étranger, and his polite but dissenting review of Sartre's La Nausée. In this Camus remarks: "the realisation that life is absurd cannot be an end in itself but only a beginning".
This is an invaluable colection of material which would show more otherwise be very difficult to access. show less
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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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- Nonfiction, Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature
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- 848.9 — Literature & rhetoric French Literature French miscellaneous writings 1900-
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- PQ2605 .A3734 .A274 — Language and Literature French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literatures French literature Modern literature 1900-1960
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