Le premier homme by Albert Camus

Le premier homme by Albert Camus

Camus tells the story of Jacques Cormery, a boy who lived a life much like his own. Camus summons up the sights, sounds and textures of a childhood circumscribed by poverty and a father's death yet redeemed by the austere beauty of Algeria and the boy's attachment to his nearly deaf-mute mother. Published thirty-five years after its discovery amid the wreckage of the car accident that killed Camus, The First Man is the brilliant consummation of the life and work of one of the 20th century's greatest novelists. Translated from the French by David Hapgood.

The First Man is perhaps the most honest book Camus ever wrote, and the most sensual.Camus is.writing at the depth of his powers.It is a work of genius.--The New Yorker

Fascinating.The First Man helps put all of Camus's work into a clearer perspective and brings into relief what separates him from the more militant literary personalities of his day.Camus's voice has never been more personal.--New York Times Book Review

Camus, Albert: - Albert Camus was a French-Algerian Nobel Prize winning author, journalist, and philosopher. 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 and sexual freedom. Camus did not consider himself to be an existentialist despite usually being classified as one. 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.... Camus was born in French Algeria to a Pied-Noir family. He studied at the University of Algiers, where he was goalkeeper for the university association football team, until he contracted tuberculosis in 1930. In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement after his split with Garry Davis's Citizens of the World movement. The formation of this group, according to Camus, was intended to denounce two ideologies found in both the USSR and the USA regarding their idolatry of technology.

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ISBN 13	9782070401017
ISBN 10	2070401014
Titel	Le premier homme
Autor	Albert Camus
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Gallimard-Jeunesse
Erscheinungsjahr	2000-02-10
Seitenanzahl	380
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