Albert Camus
1) The stranger
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Caught in the grip of forces he does not understand, a quiet, ordinary clerk in Algiers commits a murder.
2) The plague
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"The people of Oran, a coastal town in North Africa, are in the grip of a deadly plague that condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. The plague begins with a series of unheeded warnings: panic, isolation, and claustrophobia soon follow, as the townspeople are force into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way: some resign themselves to fate, some seek blame, and a few, like Dr. Rieux, resist the terror."--Provided by publisher.
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The first novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author lays the foundation for The Stranger, telling the story of an Algerian clerk who kills a man in cold blood.
In A Happy Death, written when Albert Camus was in his early twenties and retrieved from his private papers following his death in 1960, revealed himself to an extent that he never would in his later fiction. For if A Happy Death is the study of...
In A Happy Death, written when Albert Camus was in his early twenties and retrieved from his private papers following his death in 1960, revealed himself to an extent that he never would in his later fiction. For if A Happy Death is the study of...
5) The fall
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A man recalls his past life as a respected Parisian lawyer until his predicted downfall, in one terrible instant.
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Paris is firing all its ammunition into the August night. Against a vast backdrop of water and stone, on both sides of a river awash with history, freedom's barricades are once again being erected. Once again justice must be redeemed with men's blood.
Albert Camus (1913–1960) wrote these words in August 1944, as Paris was being liberated from German occupation. Although best known for his novels including The Stranger and The Plague, it was his...
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El Extranjero de Albert Camus es una obra fundamental del existencialismo que explora la indiferencia y el absurdo de la condición humana. La historia sigue a Meursault, un hombre argelino de origen francés que vive de manera desapegada y sin emociones. Tras la muerte de su madre, Meursault no muestra ningún sentimiento aparente, lo que desconcierta a quienes lo rodean. Poco después, se ve envuelto en un incidente en la playa donde, casi por casualidad,...
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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,...
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From a variety of masterfully rendered perspectives, these six stories depict people at painful odds with the world around them. A wife can only surrender to a desert night by betraying her husband. An artist struggles to honor his own aspirations as well as society's expectations of him. A missionary brutally converted to the worship of a tribal fetish is left with but an echo of his identity. Whether set in North Africa, Paris, or Brazil, the stories...
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Rebelión en Asturias relata la insurrección obrera de 1934 y la implacable represión del ejército enviado por la República para contenerla y que terminó por regar de sangre toda la región. Un año después de la sublevación, desde Argel y con solo 22 años, Albert Camus escribió esta obra de teatro como homenaje al espíritu de lucha del pueblo asturiano y a las más de 1500 personas que fueron asesinadas, en su mayor parte civiles. En palabras...
12) A Queda
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Em A Queda , Albert Camus apresenta Jean-Baptiste Clamence, um advogado parisiense bem-sucedido que vive em Amsterdã e se auto-intitula juiz-penitente . Narrado em forma de um monólogo confessionário, Clamence conta sua história a um desconhecido em bares e cafés da cidade, revelando a profundidade de sua crise existencial. Ele descreve sua antiga vida de arrogância e sucesso, e um incidente traumático que o levou a questionar sua moralidade...
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Em O Homem Revoltado , Albert Camus explora a essência da revolta humana, desde suas raízes históricas até suas manifestações contemporâneas. Publicado em 1951, o livro é uma análise filosófica e literária sobre a revolta como uma resposta contra a injustiça e a opressão. Camus inicia a obra discutindo o conceito de revolta metafísica, a rebelião do homem contra a condição humana e a busca de sentido em um universo aparentemente absurdo....
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The Stranger (French: L'Étranger [l‿e.tʁɑ̃.ʒe]), also published in English as The Outsider, is a 1942 novella written by French author Albert Camus. The first of Camus' novels published in his lifetime, the story follows Meursault, an indifferent settler in French Algeria, who, weeks after his mother's funeral, kills an unnamed Arab man in Algiers. The story is divided into two parts, presenting Meursault's first-person narrative before and...
15) Helen's Exile
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"The Greeks never said that the limit could not be overstepped. They said it existed and that whoever dared to exceed it was mercilessly struck down. Nothing in present history can contradict them."
Written in the aftermath of the Second World War, Albert Camus's essay is a searching inquiry into the origins of the hubris and fanaticism that laid waste to twentieth-century Europe. At once a celebration of the classical virtues of balance and serenity...
16) A peste
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Em A Peste , Albert Camus apresenta uma poderosa alegoria sobre a luta contra a opressão e a natureza humana. Ambientado na cidade argelina de Oran, o romance narra o surto devastador de uma epidemia de peste bubnica. Através dos olhos do Dr. Rieux e outros personagens, Camus explora temas como solidariedade, resistência e a condição humana diante da adversidade. A Peste é uma reflexão profunda sobre a moralidade e a força do espírito humano...
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"Pienso que nuestra fraternidad, que se manifiesta en todos los planos, va mucho más lejos de lo que los dos pensamos y aun de lo que sentimos. Cada vez más seremos un incordio para la frivolidad de los explotadores de nuestra época, para los selectos pregoneros de uno y otro bando. Tanto mejor. Este nuevo combate apenas comienza, y con él, nuestra razón de existir. Al menos de ello estoy convencido... Es lo que siento y presiento."
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The Nobel Prize winners most influential and enduring political writings Albert Camus (19131960) is unsurpassed among writers for a body of work that animates the wonder and absurdity of existence. Committed Writings brings together, for the first time, thematically linked essays from across Camuss writing career that reflect the scope of his political thought. This pivotal collection embodies Camuss radical and unwavering commitment to upholding...
19) Speaking Out
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Ce volume reunit les trente-quatre textes connus des prises de parole publiques d'Albert Camus, s'achevant sur la transcription inedite de son allocution au diner de L'Algerienne, le 13 novembre 1958 a Paris. D'une conference a l'autre, l'ecrivain diagnostique une "crise de l'homme", s'attache a redonner voix et dignite a ceux qui en ont ete prives par un demi-siecle de bruit et de fureur. C'est bien de civilisation qu'il s'agit ici. Pour Albert Camus,...
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In the small coastal city of Oran, Algeria, rats begin rising up from the filth only to die as bloody heaps in the streets. Shortly after, an outbreak of the bubonic plague erupts and envelops the human population. Albert Camus' The Plague is a brilliant and haunting rendering of human perseverance and futility in the face of a relentless terror born of nature.