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	• The First Man Albert Camus Vintage, 1996 - 336 pages average customer review:based on 26 reviews view larger image
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Surprisingly Brilliant

I'm a big fan of Camus, but withheld reading this, the only book of his I had not read, because I did not like "Exile and the Kingdom" very much and thought his powers somewhat dimmed. I heard about the superlatives being heaped on the book, but I did not believe them because frankly, it's his last work, and praise would have been forthcoming even if it was not up to par. BIG SURPRISE, it's extremely effective as a novel, even unfinished, and I think it's INCREDIBLE. There are so many wonderful images in this, so many touching stories, more than once I felt like weeping- I loved it- I couldn't put it down- another great book by the master. If you haven't read it for the same reason I waited so long, stop what you're doing and pick it up- you'll get to meet Camus all over again- and you'll love him just as much.

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Camus takes one giant leap backwards.

Camus leads us directly where his cliche geomental abstractions have taken us before. Its time for Camus to discharge this obsession with estivation and learn to love the summer solstice. Hibernation is not all that anyway.

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redemption at last

It is, after all, about their own lives that writers write best. Here is no exception, and this book, far beyond any other recollection of childhood I have ever read, exhumes the anguish of memory. The chronicle of his past is underscored by poverty, but out of that, Camus has built an evocation of childhood that overcomes bitterness and misanthropy and finds redemption. Somehow, Camus has emerged as the completed man, the mature man, who can finally be consoled, rather than confronted, by his own past; above all, he has sketched his life as an emotional journey, and in finding solace in the destination to which he has arrived, for better or worse, he elevates those principle forces that steered his course, his mother and his childhood instructor. This is indeed, as Camus himself termed it, the novel of his maturity, and the only unfulfilling aspect of his story is that it will remain unfinished. As the story relates, however, we can always find happiness in what we have, even if it is not exactly all that we wanted.

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Being Camus for a second

Camus shows through this book why he is a great writer, one could only wish to look at life through Camus' eyes and mind, even if it was for a second. Fortunately this book allows us that pleasure. Camus shows us a man who is patient when confronting his destiny. One of Camus' best.

a wonderful book about the hardships of a life without order

This book brought to light so many things that happen when a father is not present and women must raise a child in the harshness of poverty. I think that because this book was not read over and over, and changed, it made it that much better. If it had been it might have lost the substance that makes it great. The reason i read this book was because in my world literature class we were told to read three books by one author. I chose Albert Camus because the titles of his book seemed to be interesting. But instead of reading 3 books i read almost all of them.The First Man is by far the best.

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