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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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El gran clásico acerca del pensamiento rebelde en la Edad Moderna, firmado por uno de los faros morales del siglo xxEn su clásico estudio del pensamiento rebelde, Albert Camus traza un recorrido que va desde la Ilustración hasta las revoluciones del siglo XX, pasando por movimientos como el anarquismo o el nihilismo. Polémico desde su publicación, el libro explora también el vínculo entre rebeldía política y estética, con análisis de figuras como el marqués de Sade, Marx, Nietzsche y los surrealistas. En fin de cuentas, Camus no solo repasa casi dos siglos de insumisión, sino que ofrece valiosas hipótesis sobre la desmesura de su tiempo y, en buena medida, del nuestro.Sobre la obra:He leído El hombre rebelde, que me gusta mucho; ese es el único motivo de esta nota.Hannah Arendt, carta al autorEste ensayo conserva su actualidad, se lee siempre con un ojo nuevo. La mesura que elogia es lo contrario de la resignación. [...] El hombre rebelde im

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Los textos que dieron a conocer al premio Nobel Albert Camus y le hicieron emerger como un líder moral e intelectual.En esta noche sin igual concluyen cuatro años de una guerra monstruosa y de una lucha indecible en la que Francia bregaba con su vergüenza y su rabia. Quienes nunca perdieron la esperanza ni en sí mismos ni en su país hallan bajo este cielo su recompensa. Esta noche vale sobradamente un mundo, es la noche de la verdad.En 1944 Albert Camus ya había publicado El extranjero y El mito de Sísifo, pero fueron sus artículos en Combat los que lo dieron a conocer y le hicieron emerger como un líder moral e intelectual. Entre el otoño de 1943 y junio de 1947, fue redactor jefe y editorialista de este periódico de la Resistencia. Sus textos nos ofrecen el lúcido testimonio de un periodista consciente de sus responsabilidades tanto durante la ocupación como tras ella, cuando hubo que repensar la vida cotidiana y al mismo tiempo dibujar el futuro de

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Once overshadowed by Sartre, Camus has proved the more durable of the two most celebrated French writer-philosophers of the last century. This collection of his work makes the reasons for his survival self-evident. In prose of bleak but piercing clarity, Camus cuts to the heart of each story he tells. After The Outsider (also published in Everyman) The Plague is his most powerful novel, at once an account of heroic attempts to contain an epidemic in Algeria and a parable of the human condition. In The Fall a once-successful Parisian lawyer tells his own tale of decline and self-discovery, Exile and the Kingdom collect together a number of short stories which explore the existentialist predicament from various viewpoints. This volume also contains two important essays - The Myth of Sisyphus and Reflections on the Guillotine - which reflect on the themes developed in the fiction.

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Albert Camus' laconic masterpiece about a Frenchman who murders an Arab in colonial Algeria is famous in its time for diagnosing a state of alienation and spiritual exhaustion which summed up the mood of the mid-twentieth century. Today, more than fifty years after its first appearance, we can see that this early success was no passing fashion: The Outsider continues to speak to us of ultimate things with the force of a parable and the excitement of a thriller and remains one of the most widely read and influential classics of the century.

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The Outsider is an enduring classic of existential writing by Albert Camus'Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know'Meursault is different. He will not lie. He will not pretend. He is true to himself.So when his mother dies and he is unmoved, he refuses to do the proper thing and grieve. Returning to Algiers after the funeral, he carries on life as usual until he becomes involved in a violent murder.In court, it is clear that Meursault's guilt or innocence will not be determined by what he did or did not do. He is on trial for being different - an outsider.'The story of a beach murder, one of the century's classic novels. Blood and sand' J.G. Ballard'A compelling, dreamlike fable' GuardianAlbert Camus was born in Algeria in 1913. He studied philosophy in Algiers and then worked in Paris as a journalist. He was one of the intellectual leaders of the Resistance movement and, after the War, established his international reputation as a writer. His books include The Plague, The Just and The Fall, and he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. Camus was killed in a road accident in 1960.

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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.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 twentieth-century philosophy with its impassioned argument for the value of life in a world without religious meaning.

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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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Albert Camus' existentialist masterpiece, now in a wonderful new Clothbound Classics editionIn The Outsider, his classic existentialist novel, Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to social norms. Meursault, his anti-hero, will not lie. When his mother dies, he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others. And when he commits a random act of violence on a sun-drenched beach near Algiers, his lack of remorse compounds his guilt in the eyes of society and the law. Yet he is as much a victim as a criminal.

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In brand new translations by Ryan Bloom, four theatrical masterpieces from the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Outsider and The Plague are brought together for the first time in English, alongside deleted scenes and alternate lines of dialogueCaligula/The Misunderstanding /State of Emergency/The JustAlthough renowned for his novels, Albert Camus described the theatre as 'one of the only places in the world I'm happy', and staged the four plays gathered in this collection in Paris between 1944-49. Caligula, his first full-length dramatic work, portrays the monstrous emperor who destroys men, gods and ultimately himself. Here too are The Misunderstanding, a murderous tangle of longing; State of Emergency, where 'The Plague' appears as a central character; and The Just, which explores the limits of political conviction. This new translation brings together Camus's final versions of the plays, along with deleted scenes and alternate lines of dialogue.

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Is it possible to die a happy death?This is the central question of Camus's astonishing early novel, published posthumously and greeted as a major literary event. It tells the story of a young Algerian, Mersault, who defies society's rules by committing a murder and escaping punishment, then experimenting with different ways of life and finally dying a happy man. In many ways A Happy Death is a fascinating first sketch for The Outsider, but it can also be seen as a candid self-portrait, drawing on Camus's memories of his youth, travels and early relationships. It is infused with lyrical descriptions of the sun-drenched Algiers of his childhood - the place where, eventually, Mersault is able to find peace and die 'without anger, without hatred, without regret'.

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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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