Albert Camus
Author
Publisher
Vintage International, Vintage Books, a division of Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Perhaps the most important philosopher of the twentieth century, Albert Camus (1913-1960), winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, is more relevant today than ever before. Personal Writing brings together, for the first time, thematically-linked essays from across Camus's writing career that reflect the scope of his personal preoccupations. Featuring a foreword by acclaimed Camus scholar Alice Kaplan (author of Looking for the Stranger), this volume...
3) The fall
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searing study of modern amorality.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
"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,...
6) The plague
Author
Publisher
Vintage International/Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random Ouse LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Vintage International
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the myth of a man condemned to ceaselessly push a rock up a mountain and watch it roll back to the valley below, 'The Myth of Sisyphus' transformed 20th century philosophy with its impassioned argument for the value of life in a world without religous meaning.