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'A story for our, and all, times' Guardian The Plague is Albert Camus's world-renowned fable of fear and courageThe 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, and a story of bravery and determination against the precariousness of human existence.'A matchless fable of fear, courage and cowardice' Independent'Magnificent' The Times

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L'home revoltat és un tractat filosòfic que analitza com i per què al llarg de la història l?ésser humà s?aixeca contra el poder. Publicat el 1951 i tan actual i revelador avui dia com ho va ser en aquell moment, el seu text ens interpella tant en la rebellia com en la revolta, que per a Camus han de ser vistes com un mateix fenomen manifestat en l'àmbit personal i social respectivament.L?home revoltat és un estudi rigorós dels moviments i les doctrines dels últims dos segles, on Camus reflexiona sobre l?alliberament de l?home i la necessitat de defensar aquesta llibertat sense perjudicar els altres. Camus exposa les seves idees sobre els límits de la rebellia i el dret a la revolta com a prevenció de la tirania en nom de la llibertat.

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A visually arresting adaptation of Albert Camus’s masterful biographical novel that offers a new graphic interpretation for the next generation of readers.This new illustrated of Camus’s final novel tells the story of Jacques Cormery, a boy who lived a life much like Camus’s own. This stunning, fully illustrated edition summons up the sights, sounds and textures of a childhood defined by poverty and a father's death, yet redeemed by the austere beauty of Algeria—and the young protagonist's attachment to his nearly deaf-mute mother.   In telling the story of his metaphorical search for his father, who died in World War I, Camus returns to the 'land of oblivion where each one is the first man' and must find his own answers. Published thirty-five years after its discovery amid the wreckage of the car accident that killed the Nobel Prize–winning novelist, this graphic interpretation of The First Man&nbs

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'When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out'Written when execution by guillotine was still legal in France, Albert Camus' devastating attack on the 'obscene exhibition' of capital punishment remains one of the most powerful, persuasive arguments ever made against the death penalty.One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have helped shape our world today, from anarchists to stoics, feminists to prophets, satirists to Zen Buddhists.

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'To create today is to create dangerously'Camus argues passionately that the artist has a responsibility to challenge, provoke and speak up for those who cannot in this powerful speech, accompanied here by two others.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

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The stories of Exile and the Kingdom explore the dilemma of being an outsider - even in one's own country - and of allegiance. With intense power and lyricism, Camus evokes beautiful but harsh landscapes, whether the shimmering deserts of his native Algeria or the wild, mysterious jungles of Brazil.Here a Frenchwoman is gradually seduced by the sheer difference of North Africa, a mutilated renegade is driven mad by the cruelty of his own people, and a barrel-maker watches the slow decline of his craft. A kindly teacher must choose between the law and a life, while a modest painter is out of his depth in the hypocrisy of the art world, and a French engineer discovers a new sense of belonging in a distant land.French novelist, essayist, and playwright. Albert Camus (1913-1960) was a representative of non-metropolitan French literature. His origin in Algeria and his experiences there in the thirties were dominating influences in his thought and work.Carol Cosman is the translator of many works from French, both literary and scholarly. Among the books she has translated are Jean-Paul Sartre's "The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857," Honoré de Balzac's "Colonel Chabert," Simone de Beauvoir's "America Day by Day," and most recently René Daumal's "Mount Analogue".

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Cómic basado en " El primer hombre " , novela autobiográfica de Albert Camus y obra inacabada ya que la muerte le sobrevino cuando estaba escribiéndola.Un viaje temporal y sentimental a través de los recuerdos de la primera infancia, una historia con un valor autobiográfico y humano excepcional. El protagonista, Jacques Cormery, álter ego de Camus, retorna a Argelia, su tierra natal, para tratar de dar sentido a su vida. Allí se reencuentra con su anciana madre que apenas recuerda nada y recorre los espacios en los que creció y de los que huyó para alejase de la miseria y la enfermedad.Con esfuerzo, a través de imágenes y recuerdos arrebatados al olvido, el protagonista reúne los momentos más significativos de su niñez: el papel de una abuela severa y de su dulce madre, el trato con su primer profesor, el descubrimiento del mundo exterior, la triste historia de una tierra devastada por la guerra y la venganza, la figura del padre, un hombre pobre que mantuvo la dignidad hasta el

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Inédita en vida del autor, La muerte feliz es la primera novela escrita por Albert Camus y una notable precursora de El extranjero.Albert Camus escribió La muerte feliz en 1935, cuando contaba con solo veintitrés años de edad. Pese a dejar el texto casi terminado, nunca intentó publicarlo, y todo indica que lo aparcó para volcarse en su siguiente proyecto: El extranjero. Así pues, hubo que esperar hasta 1971, once años después de su muerte, para que la obra saliera a la luz. La espera valió la pena. En sus evocaciones líricas del mar y el paisaje mediterráneo, esta notable novela de juventud refleja en gran medida la experiencia de Camus en Argelia, mientras que su trama y personajes prefiguran la cosmovisión que el autor retrató en su ciclo del absurdo, centrado en el divorcio entre un hombre y su vida, entre el actor y su escenario. Al cabo, La muerte feliz no solo es un libro imprescindible para descubrir las primeras muestr

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The Stranger, unabridged.

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'A story for our, and all, times' GuardianSet in a town at the mercy of an epidemic, The Plague is an odyssey into the darkness and absurdity of human existence.-----------------------------------'On the morning of April 16, Dr Rieux emerged from his consulting-room and came across a dead rat in the middle of the landing.'It starts with the rats. Vomiting blood, they die in their hundreds, then in their thousands. When the rats are all gone, the citizens begin to fall sick. Like the rats, they too die in ever greater numbers.The authorities quarantine the town. Cut off, the terrified townspeople must face this horror alone. Some resign themselves to death or the whims of fate. Others seek someone to blame or dream of revenge. One is determined to escape.But a few, like stoic Dr Rieux, stand together to fight the terror. A monstrous evil has entered their lives, but they will never surrender to it.They will resist the plague.­­­-----------------------------------'A matchless fable of fear, courage and cowardice' Independent

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A daring critique of communism and how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain, Camus’ essay examines the revolutions in France and Russia, and argues that since they were both guilty of producing tyranny and corruption, hope for the future lies only in revolt without revolution. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves – and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives – and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

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