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Caligula & three other plays.
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Albert Camus
'One word to tell the reader what he will not find in this book. Although I have the most passionate attachment for the theater, I have the misfortune of liking only one kind of play, whether comic or tragic.
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Existentialism Is a Humanism
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Jean Paul Sartre, John Kulka (Editor), Carol Macomber (Translator)
It was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Sartre accepted an invitation to speak on October 29, 1945, at the Club Maintenant in Paris. The unstated objective of his lecture ("Existentialism Is a Humanism") was to expound his philosophy as a form of "existentialism," a term much bandied about at the time. Sartre asserted that ...
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Introducing Camus
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David Zane Mairowitz, Alain Korkos (Illustrator)
Albert Camus, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, always refused the existentialist label with which he is usually associated. For Camus, the world was 'absurd', without purpose, leading only unto death, yet all the more invigorating precisely because of this. Long associated with Left-Bank intellectuals, Camus' real emotional centre ...
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Albert Camus: A Biography
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Herbert R Lottman
Lottman's Albert Camus was the first and remains the definitive biography -- even in France. John Leonard, New York Times: "What emerges from Mr. Lottman's tireless devotions is a portrait of the artist, the outsider, the humanist and skeptic, that breaks the heart." John Sturrock, The New York Times Book Review: Herbert Lottman's life (of Camus) ...
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Notebooks 1935-1942
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Notebooks 1942-1951
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The Cambridge Companion to Camus
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Edward J Hughes (Editor)
Albert Camus is one of the iconic figures of twentieth-century French literature, one of France's most widely read modern literary authors and one of the youngest winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature. As the author of L'Etranger and the architect of the notion of 'the Absurd' in the 1940s, he shot to prominence in France and beyond. His work ...
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Albert Camus: A Life
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Olivier Todd
In this vibrant, engaging biography of Albert Camus, the internationally acclaimed author of The Stranger, The Plague, and The Fall, French writer and journalist Olivier Todd has richly tapped resources never before availablepersonal correspondence, notebooks, public records, as well as exclusive interviews with Camus's family, friends, fellow ...
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Correspondence, 1932-1960
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Albert Camus, Jean Grenier, Jan F Rigaud (Translator)
As a philosophy teacher, mentor, and friend, Jean Grenier (1898-1971) had an enormous influence on the young Albert Camus (1913-1960), who, in fact, acknowledged that Grenier's "Les Iles" had touched the very core of his sensibility and provided him with both a 'terrain for reflection, and a format' that he would later use for his own essays. ...
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Camus and Sartre: The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel That Ended It
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Ronald Aronson
Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre first met in 1943, during the German occupation of France. Intellectual as well as political allies, they grew famous overnight after Paris was liberated. But East West tensions began to strain their friendship as they evolved in opposing directions, disagreeing over philosophy, the responsibilities of ...
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Notebooks 1951-1959
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Albert Camus, Ryan Bloom (Translator)
The final journals of Albert Camus were withheld from publication in France for twenty-nine years after his death in 1960, and are now published in English for the first time. His final journals offer a rare, intimate glimpse into the mind of one of the most important men of letters and authors of twentieth-century French literature.
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Albert Camus and the Literature of Revolt
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John Cruickshank
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Stranger
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Gary K Carey, M.A.
The meaninglessness and randomness of life was a constant theme in Camus's writing. This story is absurd, yet touches a chord within the reader that surely will resonate for years to come. A man is condemned to beheading because he was indifferent at his mother's funeral. In prison he finds freedom and happiness. Death becomes his greatest moment ...
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Albert Camus, the Stranger
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Patrick McCarthy
In this stylistically simple, first-person tale 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." Through Meursault, Camus portrays a man who rejects the beliefs and life styles imposed on him by society. The events that lead to his ...
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Dark Feelings, Grim Thoughts: Experience and Reflection in Camus and Sartre
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Robert C Solomon
Talks about the early work of Camus and Sartre, including Camus' "The Stranger", "The Myth of Sisyphus", "The Plague", and Sartre's "Nausea", "No Exit" and the concepts of 'Bad Faith' and 'Being-for-Others'.
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Camus, a Romance
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Elizabeth Hawes
Elizabeth Hawes's passionate pursuit of Camus began with her college thesis. A biography-memoir, Camus, a Romance reveals the man behind the famous name: the French-Algerian of humble birth and Mediterranean passions; the TB-stricken exile who edited the World War II resistance newspaper Combat; the pied noir in anguish over the Algerian War; the ...
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Albert Camus: the invincible summer.
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Albert Maquet, 1922-
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Albert Camus the Algerian: Colonialism, Terrorism, Justice
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Professor David Carroll
In these original readings of Albert Camus' novels, short stories, and political essays, David Carroll concentrates on Camus' conflicted relationship with his Algerian background and finds important critical insights into questions of justice, the effects of colonial oppression, and the deadly cycle of terrorism and counterterrorism that ...
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Camus.
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Germaine Brée
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Arendt, Camus, and Modern Rebellion
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Professor Jeffrey C Isaac
The works of Hannah Arendt and Albert Camus--two of the most compelling political thinkers of the "resistance generation" that lived through World War II--can still provide penetrating insights for contemporary political reflection. Jeffrey C. Isaac offers new interpretations of these writers, viewing both as engaged intellectuals who grappled ...
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We Only Know Men: The Rescue of Jews in France During the Holocaust
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Patrick Henry
Patrick Henry, working with more than one thousand unpublished autobiographical pages written by key rescuers and with documents, letters, and interviews never before available, reconsiders the Holocaust rescue of Jews on the plateau of Vivarais-Lignon between the years 1939 and 1944. Henry carefully examines the general research of the last ...
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American Journals
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Albert Camus
These are Camus' journals of his visits to North and South America in 1946 and 1949. The journals contain descriptions of the landscape, the people and above all the differences between the drabness of post-war Europe and the flashy wealth of America.
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Youthful writings
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Albert Camus
This text contains Camus's works of his early 20s - essays, verse, parables, and fairy tales - that reveal how his writing developed. They range from essays on Verlaine and Jehan Rictus, a study of Nietzsche's and Schopenhauer's theories of music, and a dialogue between God and His Soul, to three fairy tales in "Melusina's Book" and "Voices from ...
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Camus and Sartre: Crisis and Commitment
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Germaine Bree
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Camus
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