Lyrical and Critical Essays
Lyrical and Critical Essays

Author: Albert Camus

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2012-10-31

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 030782778X

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Edited by Philip Thody, translated by Ellen Conroy Kennedy. "Here now, for the first time in a complete English translation, we have Camus' three little volumes of essays, plus a selection of his critical comments on literature and his own place in it. As might be expected, the main interest of these writings is that they illuminate new facets of his usual subject matter."--The New York Times Book Review "...a new single work for American readers that stands among the very finest."--The Nation

Albert Camus’s The Stranger
Albert Camus’s The Stranger

Author: Peter Francev

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2014-06-26

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 1443862452

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Often marginalised on the sidelines of both philosophy and literature, the works of Albert Camus have, in recent years, undergone a renaissance. While most readers in either discipline claim Camus and his works to be ‘theirs’, the scholars presented in this volume tend to see him and his works in both philosophy and literature. This volume is a collection of critical essays by an international menagerie of Camus experts who, despite their interpretive differences, see Camus through both lenses. For them, he is a novelist/essayist who embodies a philosophy that was never fully developed due to his brief life. The essays here examine Camus’s first published novel, The Stranger, from a variety of critical and theoretical perspectives, each drawing on the author’s knowledge to present the first known critical examination in English. As such, this volume will shed new light on previous scholarship.

Lyrical And Critical Essays
Lyrical And Critical Essays

Author: Albert Camus

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 1970

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 0394708520

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"Here now, for the first time in a complete English translation, we have Camus's three little volumes of essays, plus a selection of his critical comments on literature and his own place in it. As might be expected, the main interest of these writings is that they illuminate new facets of his usual subject matter."--The New York Times Book Review "A new single work for American readers that stands among the very finest."--The Nation

The Myth of Sisyphus And Other Essays
The Myth of Sisyphus And Other Essays

Author: Albert Camus

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2012-10-31

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0307827828

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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 question of living or not living 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.

Resistance, Rebellion, and Death
Resistance, Rebellion, and Death

Author: Albert Camus

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2012-10-31

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 0307827852

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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.

Personal Writings
Personal Writings

Author: Albert Camus

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2020-08-04

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13: 0525567224

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The Nobel Prize winner's most influential and enduring personal writings, newly curated and introduced by acclaimed Camus scholar Alice Kaplan. Albert Camus (1913-1960) is unsurpassed among writers for a body of work that animates the wonder and absurdity of existence. Personal Writings brings together, for the first time, thematically-linked essays from across Camus's writing career that reflect the scope and depth of his interior life. Grappling with an indifferent mother and an impoverished childhood in Algeria, an ever-present sense of exile, and an ongoing search for equilibrium, Camus's personal essays shed new light on the emotional and experiential foundations of his philosophical thought and humanize his most celebrated works.

A Life Worth Living
A Life Worth Living

Author: Robert Zaretsky

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2013-11-07

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 0674728378

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Exploring themes that preoccupied Albert Camus--absurdity, silence, revolt, fidelity, and moderation--Robert Zaretsky portrays a moralist who refused to be fooled by the nobler names we assign to our actions, and who pushed himself, and those about him, to challenge the status quo. For Camus, rebellion against injustice is the human condition.

The Literary Essays of Thomas Merton
The Literary Essays of Thomas Merton

Author: Thomas Merton

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 580

ISBN-13: 9780811209311

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Discusses Blake, Joyce, Pasternak, Faulkner, Styron, O'Connor, Camus, symbolism, creativity, alienation, contemplation, and freedom.

Looking for The Stranger
Looking for The Stranger

Author: Alice Kaplan

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2016-09-16

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 022624167X

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"A National Book Award-finalist biographer tells the story of how a young man in his 20s who had never written a novel turned out a masterpiece that still grips readers more than 70 years later and is considered a rite of passage for readers around the world, "--NoveList.