Yet profoundly transcend it.’ New RepublicAlbert Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. But what is so exhilarating about Camus’s essay is that here is the voice of a man of unshakable decency.’ Atlantic’Camus’s book is one of the extremely few that express the contemporary hour… As old regimes throughout the world collapse, The Rebel resonates as an ardent, eloquent, and supremely rational voice of conscience for our tumultuous times.’ The Rebel is a piece of reasoning in the great tradition of French logic… 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. 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. Set beside their fictional counterparts, Camus’s famous essays The Myth of Sisyphus and Reflections on the Guillotine are all the more powerful and philosophically daring, confirming his towering place in twentieth century thought.īy one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution. The six stories of Exile and the Kingdom 1957 represent Camus at the height of his narrative powers, masterfully depicting his characters from a renegade missionary to an adulterous wife at decisive moments of revelation. The Fall 1956, which takes the form of an astonishing confession by a French lawyer in a seedy Amsterdam bar, is a haunting parable of modern conscience in the face of evil.

The Plague written in 1947 and still profoundly relevant is a riveting tale of horror, survival, and resilience in the face of a devastating epidemic.

In both his essays and his fiction, Albert Camus 1913 1960 de ployed his lyric eloquence in defense against despair, providing an affirmation of the brave assertion of humanity in the face of a universe devoid of order or meaning. The Plague, The Fall, Exile and The Kingdom and Selected Essaysīook Jacket Status: JacketedFrom one of the most brilliant and influential thinkers of the twentieth century two novels, six short stories, and a pair of essays in a single volume.

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