Four Novels by Albert Camus
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Overview: Albert Camus was born in Mondovi, Algeria, in 1913; his death on January 4, 1960, cut short the career of the most important literary figure of the Western world. Camus spent the early years of his life in North Africa, where he began writing and doing work in the theater before he was twenty, and then journalism took him to metropolitan France. From 1935 to 1938 he ran the theatrical company L'Equipe, and during the war he was one of the leading writers of the French Resistance and editor of the underground newspaper Combat. In occupied France in 1942 he published the philosophical essay The Myth of Sisyphus and the novel The Stranger. Among his other major writings are essays, plays, and three works of fiction: The Plague, The Fall, and Exile and the Kingdom.
When Albert Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, the official citation accompanying this highest honor said that he was selected because of ''his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times.''
Genre: General Fiction/Classics
The Stranger: The Stranger is not merely one of the most widely read novels of the 20th century, but one of the books likely to outlive it. Camus's compelling and troubling tale of a disaffected, apparently amoral young man has earned a durable popularity and remains a staple of high school literature courses.
A young french-Algerian, Meursault, afflicted with a sort of aimless inertia, becomes embroiled in the petty intrigues of a local pimp and, somewhat inexplicably, ends up killing a man.
The Plague: 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. 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.
The Fall: Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searing study of modern amorality. Jean-Baptiste Clamence, a successful Parisian barrister, has come to recognize the deep-seated hypocrisy of his existence. His epigrammatic and, above all, discomforting monologue gradually saps, then undermines, the reader's own complacency.
Exile and the Kingdom: These works of fiction cover the whole variety of existentialism, or absurdism, as Camus himself insisted his philosophical ideas be called. The clearest manifestation of his ideals can be found in "La Pierre qui pousse." This story features D'Arrast, who can be seen as a positive hero as opposed to Meursault in The Stranger. He actively shapes his life & sacrifices himself in order to help a friend, instead of remaining passive. The moral quality of his actions is intensified by the fact that D'Arrast has deep insight into the absurdity of the world but acts morally nevertheless—quite like the main character in The Plague.
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Requirements: ePub Reader, Mobi Reader, 9.8 MB
Overview: Albert Camus was born in Mondovi, Algeria, in 1913; his death on January 4, 1960, cut short the career of the most important literary figure of the Western world. Camus spent the early years of his life in North Africa, where he began writing and doing work in the theater before he was twenty, and then journalism took him to metropolitan France. From 1935 to 1938 he ran the theatrical company L'Equipe, and during the war he was one of the leading writers of the French Resistance and editor of the underground newspaper Combat. In occupied France in 1942 he published the philosophical essay The Myth of Sisyphus and the novel The Stranger. Among his other major writings are essays, plays, and three works of fiction: The Plague, The Fall, and Exile and the Kingdom.
When Albert Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, the official citation accompanying this highest honor said that he was selected because of ''his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times.''
Genre: General Fiction/Classics
The Stranger: The Stranger is not merely one of the most widely read novels of the 20th century, but one of the books likely to outlive it. Camus's compelling and troubling tale of a disaffected, apparently amoral young man has earned a durable popularity and remains a staple of high school literature courses.
A young french-Algerian, Meursault, afflicted with a sort of aimless inertia, becomes embroiled in the petty intrigues of a local pimp and, somewhat inexplicably, ends up killing a man.
The Plague: 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. 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.
The Fall: Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searing study of modern amorality. Jean-Baptiste Clamence, a successful Parisian barrister, has come to recognize the deep-seated hypocrisy of his existence. His epigrammatic and, above all, discomforting monologue gradually saps, then undermines, the reader's own complacency.
Exile and the Kingdom: These works of fiction cover the whole variety of existentialism, or absurdism, as Camus himself insisted his philosophical ideas be called. The clearest manifestation of his ideals can be found in "La Pierre qui pousse." This story features D'Arrast, who can be seen as a positive hero as opposed to Meursault in The Stranger. He actively shapes his life & sacrifices himself in order to help a friend, instead of remaining passive. The moral quality of his actions is intensified by the fact that D'Arrast has deep insight into the absurdity of the world but acts morally nevertheless—quite like the main character in The Plague.
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