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Cargando... Albert Camus: The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essayspor Albert Camus
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I found the stories good (The Plague, The Fall and the short stories). The Myth of Sisophus tough, and the Reflections on the Gillotine interesting. ( ) Feb 2011: "The Myth of Sisyphus", 2 of 5. The absurdity of living and the logical necessity of suicide-- should be right up my ally, but I just couldn't get into this. One thing I did feel throughout was that the writing was very clunky and awkward; I'm inclined to point my finger at the translator, but since I cannot go to the original, and I (perhaps without foundation) assume Everyman's is using the translation de rigueur, it might just be clunky and awkward. Whenever my understanding started gaining some momentum, the direction of this essay would just roll right back down to the beginning, and it was always a struggle to get going again. Maybe Camus was just pulling a funny one on stubborn readers like me. Dec 2009: The Plague, 3.5 of 5. Fun to read in these days of 11-step handwashing posters in public restrooms and other attempts to inflate public obsession/paranoia of colds and flus. Once overshadowed by Sartre, Camus has proved the more durable of the two most celebrated French writer-philosophers of the last century. This collection of his work makes the reasons for his survival self-evident. In prose of bleak but piercing clarity, Camus cuts to the heart of each story he tells. After The Outsider, The Plague is his most powerful novel, at once an account of heroic attempts to contain an epidemic in Algeria and a parable of the human condition. In The Fall a once-successful Parisian lawyer tells his own tale of decline and self-discovery, Exile and the Kingdom collect together a number of short stories which explore the existentialist predicament from various viewpoints. This volume also contains two important essays - The Myth of Sisyphus and Reflections on the Guillotine - which reflect on the themes developed in the fiction. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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From the Publisher: From one of the most brilliant and influential thinkers of the twentieth century-two novels, six short stories, and a pair of essays in a single volume. In both his essays and his fiction, Albert Camus (1913-1960) deployed his lyric eloquence in defense against despair, providing an affirmation of the brave assertion of humanity in the face of a universe devoid of order or meaning. The Plague-written in 1947 and still profoundly relevant-is a riveting tale of horror, survival, and resilience in the face of a devastating epidemic. The Fall (1956), which takes the form of an astonishing confession by a French lawyer in a seedy Amsterdam bar, is a haunting parable of modern conscience in the face of evil. The six stories of Exile and the Kingdom (1957) represent Camus at the height of his narrative powers, masterfully depicting his characters-from a renegade missionary to an adulterous wife-at decisive moments of revelation. Set beside their fictional counterparts, Camus's famous essays "The Myth of Sisyphus" and "Reflections on the Guillotine" are all the more powerful and philosophically daring, confirming his towering place in twentieth-century thought. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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