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Outsider»rank: 3230051by: Albert Camus
0ur opinion: :Since it was first published in English, in 1946, Albert Camus's extraordinary 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 sun-drenched Algerian beach, Camus was exploring what he termed 'the nakedness of man faced with the absurd.'Now, in an illuminating new American translation (the only English version available for more than forty years was ...
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The Plague»rank: 7105by: Albert Camus, Stuart Gilbert
0ur opinion: :A haunting tale of human resilience in the face of unrelieved horror, Camus' novel about a bubonic plague ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic of twentieth-century literature. Review:The Nobel prize-winning Albert Camus, who died in 196O, could not have known how grimly current his existentialist novel of epidemic and death would remain. Set in Algeria, in northern Africa, The Plague is a powerful study of human life and its meaning in ...
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The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays»rank: 8384by: Albert Camus
0ur opinion: :A haunting tale of human resilience in the face of unrelieved horror, Camus' novel about a bubonic plague ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic of twentieth-century literature. Review:The Nobel prize-winning Albert Camus, who died in 196O, could not have known how grimly current his existentialist novel of epidemic and death would remain. Set in Algeria, in northern Africa, The Plague is a powerful study of human life and its meaning in ...
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The Fall»rank: 40947by: Albert Camus
0ur opinion: :Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searing study of modern amorality.
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The Plague, The Fall, Exile and The Kingdom and Selected Essays (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics)»rank: 40947by: Albert Camus
0ur opinion: :(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)From one of the most brilliant and influential thinkers of the twentieth century–two novels, six short stories, and a pair of essays in a single volume. ln both his essays and his fiction, Albert Camus (1913—196O) de-ployed his lyric eloquence in defense against despair, providing an affirmation of the brave assertion of humanity in the face of a universe devoid of order or meaning.The Plague–written in 1947 and still profoundly relevant–is a riveting tale of ...
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L Etranger»rank: 3845887by: Albert Camus
0ur opinion: :Condamn?? ?? mort, Meursault. Sur une plage alg??rienne, il a tu?? un Arabe. ?? cause du soleil, dira-t-il, parce qu'il faisait chaud. 0n n'en tirera rien d'autre. Rien ne le fera plus r??agir : ni l'annonce de sa condamnation, ni la mort de sa m??re, ni les paroles du pr??tre avant la fin. Comme si, sur cette plage, il avait soudain eu la r??v??lation de l'universelle ??quivalence du tout et du rien. La conscience de n'??tre sur la ...
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The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt»rank: 33816by: Albert Camus
0ur opinion: :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 ...
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Resistance, Rebellion and Death»rank: 1290812by: Albert Camus
0ur opinion: :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 ...
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Notebooks 1951-1959»rank: 39324by: Albert Camus
0ur opinion: :The final journals of Albert Camus were withheld from publication in France for twenty-nine years after his death in 196O, and are now published in English for the first time. His final journals offer a rare, intimate glimpse into the mind of one of the most important men of letters and authors of twentieth-century French literature.
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Exile and the Kingdom»rank: 362406by: Albert Camus
0ur opinion: :From a variety of masterfully rendered perspectives, these six stories depict people at painful odds with the world around them. A wife can only surrender to a desert night by betraying her husband. An artist struggles to honor his own aspirations as well as society's expectations of him. A missionary brutally converted to the worship of a tribal fetish is left with but an echo of his identity. Whether set in North Africa, Paris, or Brazil, the stories ...
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