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148 reviews
Albert Camus

Vintage, 1991

Stark Reminder of the Human Condition
Albert Camus never fails to shed light on the stark being of the human condition. The Plague is a thought provoking, page turning, mind boggling, and philosophically-laced novel. If you're looking for a book that creates an existentialist vibe and evokes drastic change in society during a period of turmoil, then The Plague is for you. The Plague begins with a gruesome and unexplainable ...

The Fall (V223)

91 reviews
Albert Camus

Vintage, 1963

Probably Too Complicated To Fully Describe in a Brief Review Here
Albert Camus (1913 - 1960) was a French writer and philosopher. He is often associated with existentialism, but Camus rejected any ideological classification. Camus was a young recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature when he became the first African-born writer to receive the award in 1957. He died in a car crash only three years after receiving the award. He was a social activist and ...

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Vintage V-75)

47 reviews
Albert Camus

Vintage, 1959

Definitely worth a try
Not everyone is inclined to navel lintgazing. Nor is everyone up for the level of effort necessary to gain any type of understanding of Camus' writings either. That doesn't mean the effort should not be made though! I avoided Camus for years, until a reference at work (hostage negotiation) made me realize that Camus' work was an essential element for my toolbox - namely being able to agree ...

Lyrical and Critical Essays

4 reviews
Albert Camus

Vintage, 1970

A lyric poet in disguise
"There is no love of life without despair of life."-These words haunted me when I first read this book nearly ten years ago. I then lent it out, never to be returned. (Ahem, I've become very cautious about lending books out since then.) Anyway, I just recently repurchased this book and reread it, and I still (unlike Camus' himself) regard the LYRICAL essays herein as much more beautiful, ...

First Man

27 reviews
Albert Camus

Tandem Library, 1996

incomplete, but great work
It is reallly not fair to rate a work that is not complete. As an artist, I know how horrifying it is to show unfinished works to anybody. It really is a violation. However, whether this is Camus's first draft or 2nd draft, the evidence is everywhere what kind of great book it would have been had he had a chance to edit it, re-structure and re-write it. It was a great learning experience for ...

The Stranger

517 reviews
Albert Camus

Vintage, 1989

Brilliant
This was an amazing book, as well as an amazing translation. I loved it and I would wholeheartedly recommend it.

Notebooks 1951-1960
Albert Camus

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2008

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.

The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

21 reviews
Albert Camus

Vintage, 1992

Camus eclipses nihilism and brings news of a new age!
I first became interested in Albert Camus after reading a quote from The Rebel online. "I rebel, therefore we exist" was the quote, and I must admit that, after reading the book, there has never been anything truer written. When I was in a bookstore a few months ago I found a copy of The Rebel, which is apparently a rare sight these days, since The Rebel is often ignored. Camus is one of the ...

Resistance, Rebellion and Death

6 reviews
Albert Camus

Vintage Books / Random House, New York, 1974

"In the service of truth and the service of freedom."
"I step onto the podium only when forced to by the pressure of circumstances and by my conception of my function as a writer." (p. 132) From the circumstances of Fascist Spain and Nazi occupied France, to the circumstances of the Hungarian and Algerian struggles for freedom, Camus' essays demand involvement, require action in the face of hopelessness. He never offers a moment's peace for ...

Exile and the Kingdom (Vintage V-281)

16 reviews
Albert Camus

Vintage Books, 1965

Amazing.
This is one of my favorite books. All deep meaning and pointless over evaluation aside, these stories are amazing. The descriptions of the landscapes, the actions of the characters, the intense things that went on, were all described with amazing language. I loved how, expecially in "The Growing Stone" and "The Renegade" you feel as if you are in the world that is being described. The realness of ...

Correspondence, 1932-1960
Albert Camus, Jean Grenier

University of Nebraska Press, 2003

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. Their correspondence, beginning when the seventeen-year-old Camus was ...

Between Hell and Reason: Essays from the Resistance Newspaper Combat, 1944-1947

1 review
Albert Camus

Wesleyan, 1991

See where Camus got his ideas for his later work.
I am sad to see no other reviews of this book on Amazon. This is a well written book full of essays written by Albert Camus for the french resistance paper Combat. Like the title suggests Albert Camus is faced 'Between Hell And Reason' with what he and the world was faced against. Much like Orwell's "Homage To Catalonia" we see the writer in his early age before his written his major works ...

The Rebel
Albert Camus

Vintage, 1956

The Stranger

1 review
Albert Camus

Vintage, 1954

Rebels Against the Gods
Albert Camus finished his first novel, "The Stranger", when he could not leave Paris during its first year of occupation by the German army in 1940-41. This was France's darkest hour, especially when right-wing collaborators betrayed many other French citizens to the evil Gestapo. Hitler and his Nazi hordes seemed poised to rule all of Europe, plunging it into a new dark age. How could ...

The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays (Everyman's Library)

5 reviews
Albert Camus

Everyman's Library, 2004

Love, Exile, and Suffering Illuminated by Life around Death
What is the meaning of life? For many, that question is an abstraction except in the context of being aware of losing some of the joys of life, or life itself. In The Plague, Camus creates a timeless tale of humans caught in the jaws of implacable death, in this case a huge outbreak of bubonic plague in Oran, Algeria on the north African coast. With the possibility of dying so close, each ...

The Myth of Sisyphus-and other essays
Albert Camus

Vintage Book, 1955

THE MYTH OF SISYPHUS (GREAT IDEAS S.)
ALBERT CAMUS

PENGUIN BOOKS LTD, 2005

The Plague
Albert Camus

The Modern Library, 1948

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