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In his first novel, A Happy Death, written when he was in his early twenties and retrieved from his private papers following his death in I960, Albert Camus laid the foundation for The Stranger, focusing in both works on an Algerian clerk who kills a man in cold blood. But he also revealed himself to an extent that he never would in his later fiction. For if A Happy Death is the study of a rule-bound being shattering the fetters of his existence, it is also a remarkably candid portrait of its author as a young man. As the novel follows the protagonist, Patrice Mersault, to his victim's house -- and then, fleeing, in a journey that takes him through stages of exile, hedonism, privation, and death -it gives us a glimpse into the imagination of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. For here is the young Camus himself, in love with the sea and sun, enraptured by women yet disdainful of romantic love, and already formulating the philosophy of action and moral responsibility that would make him central to the thought of our time.… (más)
Que se yo, al leer novelas no terminadas siempre te queda la duda de porque no la termino o porque no la quiso publicar. Hay que respetar al autor? en definitiva discusión interminable pero que se complica con el negocio de las editoriales. Ahora bien entrando en tema el sol, el mar presencias fuertísimas en todo Camus, el Mediterraneo, la playa, como debe haber sufrido durante la guerra de Argelia, entre cultura y su país. Es una busqueda de la felicidad, que parece terminar lográndola con un ascetismo zen de abandono, será que en el fondo la vida es el premio y que todo lo demás está demás. ( )
In his first novel, A Happy Death, written when he was in his early twenties and retrieved from his private papers following his death in I960, Albert Camus laid the foundation for The Stranger, focusing in both works on an Algerian clerk who kills a man in cold blood. But he also revealed himself to an extent that he never would in his later fiction. For if A Happy Death is the study of a rule-bound being shattering the fetters of his existence, it is also a remarkably candid portrait of its author as a young man. As the novel follows the protagonist, Patrice Mersault, to his victim's house -- and then, fleeing, in a journey that takes him through stages of exile, hedonism, privation, and death -it gives us a glimpse into the imagination of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. For here is the young Camus himself, in love with the sea and sun, enraptured by women yet disdainful of romantic love, and already formulating the philosophy of action and moral responsibility that would make him central to the thought of our time.
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Ahora bien entrando en tema el sol, el mar presencias fuertísimas en todo Camus, el Mediterraneo, la playa, como debe haber sufrido durante la guerra de Argelia, entre cultura y su país. Es una busqueda de la felicidad, que parece terminar lográndola con un ascetismo zen de abandono, será que en el fondo la vida es el premio y que todo lo demás está demás. (