Albert Camus

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Albert Camus (French: [albɛʁ kamy]; 7 November 1913 - 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, and journalist. His views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism. He wrote in his essay The Rebel that his whole life was devoted to opposing the philosophy of nihilism while still delving deeply into individual freedom. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957.

Camus did not consider himself to be an existentialist despite usually being classified as one, even in his lifetime. In a 1945 interview, Camus rejected any ideological associations: ""No, I am not an existentialist. Sartre and I are always surprised to see our names linked..."".

Camus was born in Algeria to a Pied-Noir family, and studied at the University of Algiers from which he graduated in 1936. In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons to ""denounce two ideologies found in both the USSR and the USA"".

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The Plague 16-Nov-2021

by Albert Camus, Laura Marris

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“We can finally read the work as Camus meant it to be read. Laura Marris’s new translation of The Plague is, quite simply, the translation we need to have.” —Los Angeles Review of Books

The first new translation of The Plague to be published in the United States in more than seventy years, bringing the Nobel Prize winner's iconic novel ("A redemptive book, one that wills the reader to believe, even in a time of despair." —The Washington Post) to a new generation of readers.

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 lethal disease: some resign themselves to fate, some seek blame, and a few, like Dr. Rieux, resist the terror.

An immediate triumph when it was published in 1947, The Plague is in part an allegory of France's suffering under the Nazi occupation, as well as a timeless story of bravery and determination against the precariousness of human existence. In this fresh yet careful translation, award-winning translator Laura Marris breathes new life into Albert Camus's ever-resonant tale. Restoring the restrained lyricism of the original French text, and liberating it from the archaisms and assumptions of the previous English translation, Marris grants English readers the closest access we have ever had to the meaning and searing beauty of The Plague.

This updated edition promises to add relevance and urgency to a classic novel of twentieth-century literature.

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The Stranger 3-Jul-2015

by Albert Camus

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Meursault, a young Algerian pied-noir, hears news of his mother's death. He receives this information with mild annoyance. He must now ask his boss for two days leave in order to attend the funeral. It is the custom, in his culture, for the bereaved to sit all night in vigil by the coffin of the departed loved one. At the vigil and during the funeral the following day he shows no grief, sadness or even regret. He only feels the physical inconvenience of sitting through the vigil and the heat of the sun during the funeral procession to the cemetery. At the funeral he makes mental notes of the physical objects that strike his eye; shining screws in the walnut coffin, the colours on the dresses of the nurses and the large bellies of the elderly mourners.

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The Myth of Sisyphus (Vintage International) 6-Nov-2018

by Albert Camus

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A Nobel Prize-winning author delivers one of the most influential works of the twentieth century, showing a way out of despair and reaffirming the value of existence.

Influenced by works such as Don Juan and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on suicide—the question of living or not living in a universe devoid of order or meaning. With lyric eloquence, Albert Camus brilliantly presents a crucial exposition of existentialist thought.

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L'étranger (French Edition) 9-Apr-2020

by Albert Camus

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ondamné à mort, Meursault. Sur une plage algérienne, il a tué un Arabe. À cause du soleil, dira-t-il, parce qu'il faisait chaud. On n'en tirera rien d'autre. Rien ne le fera plus réagir : ni l'annonce de sa condamnation, ni la mort de sa mère, ni les paroles du prêtre avant la fin.

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Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays 18-Apr-2022

by Albert Camus

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One of the most influential works of this century, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought. Influenced by works such as Don Juan and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on suicide; the age old question– “to be or not to be” in a universe devoid of order or meaning. With lyric eloquence, Albert Camus brilliantly posits a way out of despair, reaffirming the value of personal existence, and the possibility of life lived with dignity and authenticity

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La Peste (French Edition) 24-Jan-2015

by Albert Camus

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« La Peste » est un roman d’Albert Camus publié en 1947 qui permit en partie à son auteur de remporter le prix Nobel en 1957. Il appartient au cycle de la révolte qui rassemble trois œuvres de Camus: La Peste, L'Homme révolté et Les Justes

L’histoire se déroule dans les années 1940. Elle a pour théâtre Oran durant la période de l’Algérie française. Le roman raconte sous forme de chronique la vie quotidienne des habitants pendant une épidémie de peste qui frappe la ville et la coupe du monde extérieur. Camus semble s'être documenté sur une petite épidémie de peste bubonique, survenue à Oran en 1945, succédant à une épidémie plus sérieuse qui avait eu lieu à Alger en 1944, mais son projet est antérieur à l'apparition de ces épidémies, puisqu'il y travaille depuis 1942 (comme en témoignent ses « Carnets »).

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Travels in the Americas: Notes and Impressions of a New World (The France Chicago Collection) 10-Mar-2023

by Albert Camus, Alice Kaplan, Ryan Bloom

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Albert Camus’s lively journals from his eventful visits to the United States and South America in the 1940s, available again in a new translation.

In March 1946, the young Albert Camus crossed from Le Havre to New York. Though he was virtually unknown to American audiences at the time, all that was about to change—The Stranger, his first book translated into English, would soon make him a literary star. By 1949, when he set out on a tour of South America, Camus was an international celebrity. Camus’s journals offer an intimate glimpse into his daily life during these eventful years and showcase his thinking at its most personal—a form of observational writing that the French call choses vues (things seen).

Camus’s journals from these travels record his impressions, frustrations, joys, and longings. Here are his unguarded first impressions of his surroundings and his encounters with publishers, critics, and members of the New York intelligentsia. Long unavailable in English, the journals have now been expertly retranslated by Ryan Bloom, with a new introduction by Alice Kaplan. Bloom’s translation captures the informal, sketch-like quality of Camus’s observations—by turns ironic, bitter, cutting, and melancholy—and the quick notes he must have taken after exhausting days of travel and lecturing. Bloom and Kaplan’s notes and annotations allow readers to walk beside the existentialist thinker as he experiences changes in his own life and the world around him, all in his inimitable style.

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The Rebel 9-Feb-2023

by Albert Camus

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The Rebel, written by one of our century's most profoundly influential philosophers, is a well-known essay on revolt. One of the "fundamental features" of human nature, according to Albert Camus, is the drive to rebel against authority. This urge has historically revealed itself in both the proletarian struggle of man against the conditions of his life and in popular uprisings against tyrannical regimes. However, The Rebel resonates as an impassioned, articulate, and supremely intellectual voice of conscience for our turbulent times, focusing on the French Revolution and its regicides and deicides to demonstrate how inevitably the road of revolution leads to tyranny when old regimes throughout the world fall.

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Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays (Vintage International) 31-Oct-2012

by Albert Camus

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NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • Twenty-three political essays that focus on the victims of history, from the fallen maquis of the French Resistance to the casualties of the Cold War.

In the speech he gave upon accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, Albert Camus said that a writer "cannot serve today those who make history; he must serve those who are subject to it."

Resistance, Rebellion and Death displays Camus' rigorous moral intelligence addressing issues that range from colonial warfare in Algeria to the social cancer of capital punishment. But this stirring book is above all a reflection on the problem of freedom, and, as such, belongs in the same tradition as the works that gave Camus his reputation as the conscience of our century: The Stranger, The Rebel, and The Myth of Sisyphus.

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The Plague 16-Feb-2022

by Albert Camus

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The story depicts how rats begin rising up from the flth and spread over the city of Oran, Algeria, to die as bloody heaps in the streets all around. After which a bubonic lague erupts and the entire population gets enveloped into it resulting into mass deaths in the city. The book is rather a dark, haunting and a brilliant work of Albert Camus till date.

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The Stranger - Albert Camus 13-Feb-2023

by Albert Camus, Giovanni Corrêa

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"The Stranger" by Albert Camus is a philosophical novel that explores themes of existentialism and absurdity. The main character, Meursault, is a detached and emotionally distant man who is struggling to find meaning in a world that seems to lack purpose. The story follows Meursault as he becomes embroiled in a series of events that lead to a tragic ending, forcing him to confront his own beliefs about life and death. Through Meursault's journey, Camus offers a powerful critique of societal norms and the human condition, challenging readers to consider the meaning of their own lives and the world around them. "The Stranger" is widely regarded as a classic of 20th century literature and continues to be widely read and studied today.

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Le Mythe de Sisyphe (French Edition) 3-Mar-2018

by Albert Camus

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One of Albert Camus's best works!

Philosopher Albert Camus explains his philosophy of the absurd in this popular work. He struggles to find meaning in the modern world, and gives his thoughts on the plight of man's existence. This book is in the original French.

Albert Camus (1913 – 1960) was a French philosopher and essayist.

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