Albert Camus - Free Library Land Online

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Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd." First published in 1946; now in a new translation by Matthew Ward.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 The plague https://language.library.land/albert-camus/33583-the_plague.html https://language.library.land/albert-camus/33583-the_plague.html

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Part of the Penguin Classics campaign celebrating 100 years of Albert Camus, A Sea Close By reveals the writer as a sensual witness of landscapes, the sea and sailing. It is a light, summery day-dream. Accompanying The Sea Close By is the essay Summer in Algiers, a lovesong to his Mediterranean childhood.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt https://language.library.land/albert-camus/33589-the_rebel_an_essay_on_man_in_revolt.html https://language.library.land/albert-camus/33589-the_rebel_an_essay_on_man_in_revolt.html

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, he shows how inevitably the course of revolution leads to tyranny. As old regimes throughout the world collapse, The Rebel resonates as an ardent, eloquent, and supremely rational voice of conscience for our tumultuous times. Translated from the French by Anthony Bower.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 A Happy Death https://language.library.land/albert-camus/33586-a_happy_death.html https://language.library.land/albert-camus/33586-a_happy_death.html

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'.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 Les Justes https://language.library.land/albert-camus/33579-les_justes.html https://language.library.land/albert-camus/33579-les_justes.html

En février 1905, à Moscou, un groupe de terroristes, appartenant au parti socialiste révolutionnaire, organisait un attentat à la bombe contre le grand-duc Serge, oncle du tsar. Cet attentat et les circonstances singulières qui l'ont précédé et suivi font le sujet des justes. Si extraordinaires que puissent paraître, en effet, certaines des situations de cette pièce, elles sont pourtant historiques. Ceci ne veut pas dire, on le verra d'ailleurs, que les justes soient une pièce historique. Mais tous les personnages ont réellement existé et se sont conduits comme je le dis. J'ai seulement tâché à rendre vraisemblable ce qui était déjà vrai... la haine qui pesait sur ces âmes exceptionnelles comme une intolérable souffrance est devenue un système confortable. Raison de plus pour évoquer ces grandes ombres, leur juste révolte, leur fraternité difficile, les efforts démesurés qu'elles firent pour se mettre en accord avec le meurtre - et pour dire ainsi où est notre fidélité. Albert camus.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 Exile and the Kingdom https://language.library.land/albert-camus/33588-exile_and_the_kingdom.html https://language.library.land/albert-camus/33588-exile_and_the_kingdom.html

Four of these stories are set on the shimmering desert fringes of Albert Camus' native Algeria. All of them first appeared in 1957, the year when he became the youngest French writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 PREFACE https://language.library.land/albert-camus/33580-preface.html https://language.library.land/albert-camus/33580-preface.html PREFACE

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]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 Travels in the Americas https://language.library.land/albert-camus/660856-travels_in_the_americas.html https://language.library.land/albert-camus/660856-travels_in_the_americas.html

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...]]> Mon, 18 Sep 2023 09:06:00 +0300 Resistance, Rebellion, and Death https://language.library.land/albert-camus/480111-resistance_rebellion_and_death.html https://language.library.land/albert-camus/480111-resistance_rebellion_and_death.html

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." And in these twenty-three political essays, he demonstrates his commitment to history's victims, from the fallen maquis of the French Resistance to the casualties of the Cold War.

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.]]> Sun, 18 Nov 2012 11:19:19 +0200 The First Man https://language.library.land/albert-camus/33577-the_first_man.html https://language.library.land/albert-camus/33577-the_first_man.html

The unfinished manuscript of The First Man was discovered in the wreckage of car accident in which Camus died in 1960. Although it was not published for over thirty years, it was an instant bestseller when it finally appeared in 1994. The 'first man' is Jacques Cormery, whose poverty-stricken childhood in Algiers is made bearable by his love for his silent and illiterate mother, and by the teacher who transforms his view of the world. The most autobiographical of Camus's novels, it gives profound insights into his life and the powerful themes underlying his work.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1994 08:56:32 +0300 The Possessed https://language.library.land/albert-camus/33587-the_possessed.html https://language.library.land/albert-camus/33587-the_possessed.html

Dostoevsky's work turned into a three-part play by Camus. Nihilism & individualism brought to the foreground thru the eyes of Russian intellectualism. The Possessed is Albert Camus' last work. He died 1/4/1960. It's considered one of his finest achievements.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 Resistance, Rebellion and Death: Essays https://language.library.land/albert-camus/33578-resistance_rebellion_and_death_essays.html https://language.library.land/albert-camus/33578-resistance_rebellion_and_death_essays.html

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." And in these twenty-three political essays, he demonstrates his commitment to history's victims, from the fallen maquis of the French Resistance to the casualties of the Cold War.
Resistance, Rebellion and Death displays Camus's 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.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300