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Camus: The Stranger (Landmarks of World Literature (New))

Cambridge University Press

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Patrick McCarthy analyzes The Stranger, one of the vital texts of existentialism and twentieth-century literature, in the context of French and French-Algerian history and culture. McCarthy examines how the work undermines traditional concepts of fiction and explores parallels and contrasts between Camus's work and that of Jean-Paul Sartre. Providing students with a useful companion to The Stranger, this second edition features a revised guide to further reading and a new chapter on Camus and the Algerian War. First Edition Hb (1988): 0-521-32958-2 First Edition Pb (1988): 0-521-33851-4
Patrick McCarthy analyzes The Stranger, one of the vital texts of existentialism and twentieth-century literature, in the context of French and French-Algerian history and culture. McCarthy examines how the work undermines traditional concepts of fiction and explores parallels and contrasts between Camus's work and that of Jean-Paul Sartre. Providing students with a useful companion to The Stranger, this second edition features a revised guide to further reading and a new chapter on Camus and the Algerian War. First Edition Hb (1988): 0-521-32958-2 First Edition Pb (1988): 0-521-33851-4
The Plague

Fontal Lobe Publishing

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The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way to the lethal disease: some resign themselves to fate, some seek blame, and a few, like Dr. Rieux, resist the terror. An immediate triumph when it was published in 1947, "The Plague" is in part an allegory of France's suffering under the Nazi occupation, and a story of bravery and determination against the precariousness of human existence.
The Nobel prize-winning Albert Camus, who died in 1960, could not have known how grimly current his existentialist novel of epidemic and death would remain. Set in Algeria, in northern Africa, The Plague is a powerful study of human life and its meaning in the face of a deadly virus that sweeps dispassionately through the city, taking a vast percentage of the population with it.
Existentialism and Death On a Paris Afternoon



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The Germans march into Paris as Simon Renard watches from his hotel window. Ever the opportunist, Renard befriends the local minister and is given a post by his new beneficiary as administrative judge. His task is simple: find guilt or innocence in his fellow Parisians relating to seditious activities.

But as Renard soon learns, the bargain he has made carries a terrible price...

"Existentialism and Death On a Paris Afternoon" speaks to the anxieties and alienation of a generation that has lost its spiritual direction and feels a deep anxiety that life may be meaningless. And how does one find meaning in a universe one finds meaningless? For Renard the answer is simple: survival.

A Novella.

The Germans march into Paris as Simon Renard watches from his hotel window. Ever the opportunist, Renard befriends the local minister and is given a post by his new beneficiary as administrative judge. His task is simple: find guilt or innocence in his fellow Parisians relating to seditious activities.

But as Renard soon learns, the bargain he has made carries a terrible price...

"Existentialism and Death On a Paris Afternoon" speaks to the anxieties and alienation of a generation that has lost its spiritual direction and feels a deep anxiety that life may be meaningless. And how does one find meaning in a universe one finds meaningless? For Renard the answer is simple: survival.

A Novella.

Exile and the Kingdom

Vintage

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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 in Exile and the Kingdom are probing portraits of spiritual exile, and man’s perpetual search for an inner kingdom in which to be reborn. They display Camus at the height of his powers.

Now, on the 50th anniversary of the book’s publication, Carol Cosman’s new translation recovers a literary treasure for our time.

Albert Camus won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.
The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays (Everyman's Library)

Everyman's Library

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From 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. 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–written in 1947 and still profoundly relevant–is a riveting tale of horror, survival, and resilience in the face of a devastating epidemic. 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 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. 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.
L'Etranger (Twentieth-Century French Texts) (French Edition)

T & F Books UK

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In the Wake of the H1N1 Pandemic: Mexico's Ailing Economy is in ... - Center for Research on Globalization Center for Research on GlobalizationIn the Wake of the H1N1 Pandemic: Mexico's Ailing Economy is in No longer does one feel here, like a character in Albert Camus´ metaphorical novel on the Nazi occupation of France , entitled ¨The Plague or La Peste ¨. Thankfully for most of us residing and working in this city, the self imposed quarantine seems to

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The Stranger by Albert Camus
Camus never even mentions the character's name. One of the reasons it'sa phenomenal book is because 100 percent of the time, the audience knows exactly what's going on; getting lost or side-tracked isn'ta problem. Most books are so busy with excessive