Resistance Rebellion Death Albert Camus Essays 1st Edition First Printing

Description: Resistance, Rebellion & Death by Albert Camus NOBEL PRIZE winner 1961 ~ 1st Edition 1st Printing w/ $4.00 on DJ Knopf, 1961. VG+. Blindstamp on ffep, bright and tight. Mild edge wear and surface flaws. Chips, scuffs, small tears , chipped spine to DJ, toned a bit. A collectible copy. Albert Camus; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French Algerian author, philosopher and journalist. He was a key philosopher of the 20th-century, his most famous work being the novel The Stranger (LÉtranger). In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement, which was opposed to some tendencies of the Surrealist movement of André Breton. Camus was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times. He was the second-youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, after Rudyard Kipling, and the first African-born writer to receive the award. He is the shortest-lived of any Nobel literature laureate to date, having died in an automobile accident just over two years after receiving the award. Although often cited as a proponent of existentialism, the philosophy with which Camus was associated during his own lifetime, he rejected this particular label. In an interview in 1945, Camus rejected any ideological associations: No, I am not an existentialist. Sartre and I are always surprised to see our names linked Specifically, his views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism. He wrote in his essay The Rebel that his whole life was devoted to opposing the philosophy of nihilism while still delving deeply into individual freedom. Exile and the Kingdom (LExil et le royaume) is a 1957 collection of six short stories by French-Algerian writer Albert Camus. 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 the ideals of Camus can be found in the story La Pierre qui pousse. This story features DArrast, who can be seen as a positive hero as opposed to Meursault in The Stranger. He actively shapes his life and sacrifices himself in order to help a friend, instead of remaining passive. The moral quality of his actions is intensified by the fact that DArrast has deep insight into the absurdity of the world but acts morally nevertheless (not unlike the main character in The Plague). The six works collected in this volume are: The Adulterous Woman (La Femme adultère) The Renegade or a Confused Spirit (Le Renégat ou un esprit confus) The Silent Men (Les Muets) The Guest (LHôte) Jonas or the Artist at Work (Jonas ou l’artiste au travail) The Growing Stone (La Pierre qui pousse)

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