This volume takes the literary reception of Kleist as one of its focal points and, furthermore, considers the author's oeuvre and his life on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of his death.

Their passions and obsessions, their inadequacies and longings are captured in a writing style that reveals its influence even in novels and plays of the twentieth century. 'The First Man is perhaps the most honest book Camus ever wrote, and the most sensual.Camus is.writing at the depth of his powers.It is a work of genius.' Translated from the French by David Hapgood. Published thirty-five years after its discovery amid the wreckage of the car accident that killed Camus, The First Man is the brilliant consummation of the life and work of one of the 20th century's greatest novelists.

Camus summons up the sights, sounds and textures of a childhood circumscribed by poverty and a father's death yet redeemed by the austere beauty of Algeria and the boy's attachment to his nearly deaf-mute mother. Author: Albert Camus ISBN: 869 Genre: Fiction File Size: 31.45 MB Format: PDF, Kindle Download: 958 Read: 1201 Camus tells the story of Jacques Cormery, a boy who lived a life much like his own. Author: Robert Zaretsky ISBN: 370 Genre: Biography & Autobiography File Size: 32.96 MB Format: PDF, Mobi Download: 485 Read: 1132 Exploring themes that preoccupied Albert Camus-absurdity, silence, revolt, fidelity, and moderation-Robert Zaretsky portrays a moralist who refused to be fooled by the nobler names we assign to our actions, and who pushed himself, and those about him, to challenge the status quo.īut 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. With lyric eloquence, Albert Camus brilliantly posits a way out of despair, reaffirming the value of personal existence, and the possibility of life lived with dignity and authenticity. Influenced by works such as Don Juan and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on suicide the question of living or not living in a universe devoid of order or meaning.

Author: Albert Camus ISBN: 821 Genre: Philosophy File Size: 51.64 MB Format: PDF Download: 389 Read: 1045 One of the most influential works of this century, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought.

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