Bøger af Albert Camus

Symbolsk roman om en pestepidemi, der i 1940'erne bryder ud i byen Oran i Algeriet.

En ung franskmand i Algeriet, Meursault, lever et ganske almindeligt hverdagsliv, indtil han en dag på grund af tilfældige omstændigheder skyder et menneske, han overhovedet ikke kender. Alt, hvad der sker omkring Meursault, oplever han på en underlig søvngængeragtig måde uden rigtig at forstå meningen med hverken det, sig selv eller verden. Han skelner ikke mellem godt og ondt. For ham har alle handlinger samme gyldighed. Romanen er nyoversat af Hans Peter Lund.

The Stranger, a riveting work by Albert Camus, is a must-read for anyone interested in existential philosophy. Published by Random House USA Inc in 1989, this book has captivated readers with its thought-provoking narrative and unique perspective on life. The Stranger falls under the genre of philosophical fiction, a testament to Camus's profound insight and ability to weave complex ideas into a compelling narrative. The story is set in French Algeria and follows the life of its enigmatic protagonist, Meursault. Camus's masterful storytelling and sharp philosophical insights make The Stranger a timeless classic. Don't miss the opportunity to delve into this mesmerizing world crafted by Albert Camus, brought to you by Random House USA Inc.

In this profound and moving philosophical statement, Camus poses the fundamental question: Is life worth living? If human existence holds no significance, what can keep us from suicide?As Camus argues, if there is no God to give meaning to our lives, humans must take on that purpose themselves. This is our 'absurd' task, like Sisyphus forever rolling his rock up a hill, as the inevitability of death constantly overshadows us. Written during the bleakest days of the Second World War, The Myth of Sisyphus argues for an acceptance of reality that encompasses revolt, passion and, above all, liberty.This volume contains several other essays, including lyrical evocations of the sunlit cities of Algiers and Oran, the settings of his great novels The Outsider and The Plague.Albert Camus is the author of a number of best-selling and highly influential works, all of which are published by Penguin. They include The Fall, The Outsider and The First Man. He is remembered as one of the few writers to have shaped the intellectual climate of post-war France, but beyond that, his fame has been international.Translated by Justin O'BrienWith an Introduction by James Wood

Noveller om konflikten mellem menneskers individualitet og kravet om solidaritet og fællesskab med andre.

En enestående skildring af en drengs opvækst i en fattig fransk familie i Algier, og en ufuldendt roman, der smukt og varmt fuldender et stort forfatterskab.

The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way to the lethal disease: some resign themselves to fate, some seek blame, and a few, like Dr Rieux, resist the terror.An immediate triumph when it was published in 1947, The Plague is in part an allegory of France's suffering under the Nazi occupation, and a story of bravery and determination against the precariousness of human existence.An immediate triumph when it was published in 1947, The Plague is in part an allegory of France's suffering under the Nazi occupation, and a story of bravery and determination against the precariousness of human existence.

Is it possible to die a happy death? This is the central question of Camus's astonishing early novel, published posthumously and greeted as a major literary event. It tells the story of a young Algerian, Mersault, who defies society's rules by committing a murder and escaping punishment, then experimenting with different ways of life and finally dying a happy man. In many ways A Happy Death is a fascinating first sketch for The Outsider, but it can also be seen as a candid self-portrait, drawing on Camus's memories of his youth, travels and early relationships. It is infused with lyrical descriptions of the sun-drenched Algiers of his childhood - the place where, eventually, Mersault is able to find peace and die 'without anger, without hatred, without regret'.

The Rebel is Camus's 'attempt to understand the time I live in' and a brilliant essay on the nature of human revolt. Published in 1951, it makes a daring critique of communism - how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain and the resulting totalitarian regimes. It questions two events held sacred by the left wing - the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian Revolution of 1917 - that had resulted, he believed, in terrorism as a political instrument.In this towering intellectual document, Camus argues that hope for the future lies in revolt, which unlike revolution is a spontaneous response to injustice and a chance to achieve change without giving up collective and intellectual freedom.

Meursault leads an apparently unremarkable bachelor life in Algiers until he commits a random act of violence. His lack of emotion and failure to show remorse only serve to increase his guilt in the eyes of the law, and challenges the fundamental values of society - a set of rules so binding that any person breaking them is condemned as an outsider. For Meursault, this is an insult to his reason and a betrayal of his hopes; for Camus it encapsulates the absurdity of life.In The Outsider (1942), his classic existentialist novel, Camus explores the predicament of the individual who refuses to pretend and is prepared to face the indifference of the universe, courageously and alone.

In brand new translations by Ryan Bloom, four theatrical masterpieces from the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Outsider and The Plague are brought together for the first time in English, alongside deleted scenes and alternate lines of dialogueCaligula/The Misunderstanding /State of Emergency/The JustAlthough renowned for his novels, Albert Camus described the theatre as 'one of the only places in the world I'm happy', and staged the four plays gathered in this collection in Paris between 1944-49. Caligula, his first full-length dramatic work, portrays the monstrous emperor who destroys men, gods and ultimately himself. Here too are The Misunderstanding, a murderous tangle of longing; State of Emergency, where 'The Plague' appears as a central character; and The Just, which explores the limits of political conviction. This new translation brings together Camus's final versions of the plays, along with deleted scenes and alternate lines of dialogue.

Includes the full French text, accompanied by French-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context.

Written in the aftermath of the Second World War, Albert Camus's essay is a searching inquiry into the origins of the hubris and fanaticism that laid waste to twentieth-century Europe.

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.Translated from the French by Richard Howard

A new collection of Albert Camus' most brilliant speeches and lectures'Freedom is dangerous, as hard to live as it is exalting...'This definitive new collection of Albert Camus' public speeches and lectures gives a compelling insight into one of the twentieth century's most enduring writers. From a pre-war speech on the politics of the Mediterranean - delivered when he was just twenty-two - to his impassioned Nobel Prize acceptance lectures and several pieces appearing in English for the first time, Speaking Out shows Camus' clarity and subtlety of thought, his 'stubborn humanism' and his unerring commitment to freedom and justice.Translated by Quintin Hoare

"Die Pest" von Albert Camus ist Weltliteratur. Der französische Autor veröffentlichte das Drama 1947, zu einer Zeit als die Folgen des Zweiten Weltkriegs noch sehr präsent waren. Schauplatz ist die Stadt Oran an der algerischen Küste in den 1940er Jahren. Sie wird von einer Pestepidemie heimgesucht, die tausende Menschen das Leben kostet. Um die Weiterverbreitung zu verhindern, wird die Stadt abgeriegelt. Zentrale Figur des Dramas ist ein Arzt, der unermüdlich versucht den Schwarzen Tod zu bekämpfen. Zu Beginn scheint es, als würde es kein Muster geben, als würde niemand verschont bleiben. Doch bald zeigt sich, dass vor allem jene sterben, die sich unsolidarisch zeigen. Die Seuche in Camus Drama gilt als metaphorisch für die Moral während des Zweiten Weltkriegs. Es ist eine Abrechnung mit dem Mangel an Menschlichkeit während einer Katastrophe und gleichzeitig ein zeitloser Appell sich dieser zu besinnen. Albert Camus (1913-1960) war französischer Schriftsteller und Philosoph. Den Großteil seines Lebens verbrachte er in Algerien, zur damaligen Zeit noch Französisch-Nordafrika. Seine Familie waren Siedler dritter Generation, er hatte sowohl französische als auch spanische Wurzeln. Aufgrund einer Tuberkuloseerkrankung war es ihm nicht möglich als Soldat in den Krieg zu gehen, die Kriegsjahre verbrachte er an stattdessen vor allem im besetzten Paris. Hier arbeitete er als Journalist im Widerstand und schrieb fünf Jahre lang an dem Drama "Die Pest", das heute als Weltliteratur gilt. Zusammen mit Sartre gilt er als einer der Vordenker des Existentialismus und einige seiner Werke gelten als grundlegende Werke der Nachkriegsliteratur. Er wurde 1957 mit dem Literaturnobelpreis ausgezeichnet.

'To create today is to create dangerously'Camus argues passionately that the artist has a responsibility to challenge, provoke and speak up for those who cannot in this powerful speech, accompanied here by two others.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

The stories of Exile and the Kingdom explore the dilemma of being an outsider - even in one's own country - and of allegiance. With intense power and lyricism, Camus evokes beautiful but harsh landscapes, whether the shimmering deserts of his native Algeria or the wild, mysterious jungles of Brazil.Here a Frenchwoman is gradually seduced by the sheer difference of North Africa, a mutilated renegade is driven mad by the cruelty of his own people, and a barrel-maker watches the slow decline of his craft. A kindly teacher must choose between the law and a life, while a modest painter is out of his depth in the hypocrisy of the art world, and a French engineer discovers a new sense of belonging in a distant land.

Det filosofiske essay udkom på fransk i 1942 og fremstår i dag som en nøgle til forståelsen af begreberne absurditet og eksistens i Albert Camus' forfatterskab.

Albert Camus's lively journals from his eventful visits to the United States and South America in the 1940s, available again in a new translation. In March 1946, the young Albert Camus crossed from Le Havre to New York. Though he was virtually unknown to American audiences at the time, all that was about to change--The Stranger, his first book translated into English, would soon make him a literary star. By 1949, when he set out on a tour of South America, Camus was an international celebrity. Camus's journals offer an intimate glimpse into his daily life during these eventful years and showcase his thinking at its most personal--a form of observational writing that the French call choses vues (things seen). Camus's journals from these travels record his impressions, frustrations, joys, and longings. Here are his unguarded first impressions of his surroundings and his encounters with publishers, critics, and members of the New York intelligentsia. Long unavailable in English, the journals have now been expertly retranslated by Ryan Bloom, with a new introduction by Alice Kaplan. Bloom's translation captures the informal, sketch-like quality of Camus's observations--by turns ironic, bitter, cutting, and melancholy--and the quick notes he must have taken after exhausting days of travel and lecturing. Bloom and Kaplan's notes and annotations allow readers to walk beside the existentialist thinker as he experiences changes in his own life and the world around him, all in his inimitable style.

In einer atemberaubenden Beichte bekennt der Pariser Staranwalt Jean-Baptiste Clamence seine Sünden und hält der Welt den Spiegel vor. Scharfsinnig, witzig und rigoros büßt Clamence in seiner Selbstbezichtigung - und richtet gleichzeitig über die ganze Menschheit.

From one of the most brilliant and influential thinkers of the twentieth century and a Nobel Prize-winning author: two novels, six short stories, and a pair of essays in a single volume that deploy his lyric eloquence in defense against despair. In both his essays and his fiction, Albert Camus (1913--1960) provides 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.

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 YorkerFascinating...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

La Caída es la tercera y última novela de este filósofo, publicada en el año 1956. Dentro de su obra se puede identificar la línea existencialista de su pensamiento, asimismo refleja la filosofía de lo absurdo en la sensación de aprobación y desencanto junto a la afirmación de las cualidades positivas como negativas en la dignidad y fraternidad del ser humano. Camus consideró lo absurdo de la condición humana como una trágica incapacidad de comprender y trascender en cada situación que envuelve al sujeto, mismo lineamiento queda al descubierto en la descripción de un mundo aparentemente irracional en que el individuo busca su sentido de vida como lo es el protagonista de esta novela.

El narrador nos cuenta lo que ha visto en Orán, asolada por la peste: la subida de las ratas que mueren en todas partes, en las calles en las casas; la aparición de la enfermedad pocos médicos identifican de momento;las medidas cada vez más severas que toman las autoridades .Finalmente hay un aislamiento total de la ciudad, con la consiguiente separación brusca de seres que no estaban preparadas para ello: Él doctor Rieux y su esposa, la cual se halla haciendo una cura en un balneario de montaña; ÉL periodista Rambert y su amiga, que ha quedado en parís . EL Doctor, pese a sus preocupaciones, lucha cuanto puede contra la epidemia por piedad ante la miseria, por amor a su profesión y su honradez a su alrededor se agrupan otras buenas voluntades: El escritor Tarrou, que quiere ser un santo sin creer en Dios;Grand, el humilde funcionario presa de gran pena y una ilusión absurda;padre Paneloux, a quien la peste pareció primero un castigo merecido, pero que luego se impresiono ante la muerte de un niño. Tarrou y el sacerdote sucumben, Grand escapa difícilmente .Luego la epidemia cede. Se abren las puertas de la ciudad y acaban las separaciones, pero el corazón de los hombres a cambiado. El mismo Rieux, saturado de fatiga y sufrimiento, se entera con esteoicismo de la muerte de su esposa. Continuará en su puesto: "Los enfermos no tienen vacaciones" y los médicos tampoco .Además, confiesa que él es quien ha escrito la crónica. Ha querido dar testimonio "de que había en los hombres más cosas dignas de admiración que de desprecio" y que hay que permanecer siempre en alerta por que el bacilo de la peste no muere jamás.