Bøger af Albert Camus

Des phénomènes inquiétants agitent Oran: des rats meurent en grand nombre, puis des hommes sont victimes d'une maladie qui semble être la peste. La ville se trouve bientôt isolée du reste du monde. Face à cet enfermement, face à la menace diffuse de la mort, l'écrivain décrit les réactions de chacun, réactions d'une très grande diversité allant du dévouement au repliement sur soi.De nombreuses hypothèses ont été avancées pour donner une interprétation à ce roman, une signification à cette peste. Mais nul doute que les lecteurs de 1947 y ont retrouvé des souvenirs peu agréables et tout récents: Les camps de quarantaine, où les familles sont séparées, font penser aux camps de concentration. Les morts finissent brulés. Il y a des filières d'évasion comme pour le passage d'une ligne de démarcation. Le ravitaillement est insuffisant et le marché noir en expension.

es la primera novela del escritor francés Albert Camus, publicada en 1942. El protagonista, Meursault, es un ser indiferente a la realidad por resultarle absurda e inabordable. El progreso tecnológico le ha privado de la participación en las decisiones colectivas y le ha convertido en "extranjero" dentro de lo que debería ser su propio entorno.

hrough the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd." First published in English in 1946; now in a new translation by Matthew Ward.opsis 2: The Stranger is the enigmatic first novel by Albert Camus, published in French as L'Étranger in 1942. It was published as The Outsider in England and as The Stranger in the United States. Camus utilized The Stranger as a platform to explore absurdity, a concept central to his writings and at the core of his treatment of questions about the meaning of life. Camus's concept of the absurd instead implored people to accept life's lack of meaning and rebel by rejoicing in what life does offer. Elements of this philosophy can be seen in the protagonist, Meursault, as he refuses to behave as if there is meaning where there is none-or, as Camus himself put it in a preface to The Stranger, Meursault "does not play the game." Society thus feels threatened and cuts off Meursault's head. Similar themes can be seen in Camus's essay Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus), also published in 1942. About the AuthorALBERT CAMUS was born in Mondovi, Algeria, in 1913. After winning a degree in philosophy, he worked at various jobs, ending up in journalism. In the thirties he ran a theatrical company, and during the war was active in the French Resistance, editing an important underground paper, Combat. Among his major works are four widely praised works of fiction, The Stranger (1946), The Plague (1948), The Fall (1957), and Exile and the Kingdom (1958); a volume of plays, Caligula and Three Other Plays (1958); and two books of philosophical essays, The Rebel (1954) and The Myth of Sisyphus (1955), both of which are available in the Vintage series. Albert Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. He was killed in an automobile accident on January 4, 1960.

En su novela "El Extranjero" Albert Camus describe en forma muy detallada la carencia de valores del mundo contemporáneo como consecuencia de la frustración y la desesperanza en la que Europa quedó sumergida después de la guerra. Meursault, el protagonista refleja la filosofía del absurdo, la sensación de alienación, de desencanto frente a la vida. El aburrimiento, la cotidianidad lo van haciendo insensible, indiferente y hasta casi despiadado. Parecería que da lo mismo ser de una forma que de otra. Sin embargo, también en la novela se afirman las cualidades positivas de la divinidad y la fraternidad humana.

Premio Nobel de la Literatura en 1957, Albert Camus, nacido en África del Norte en 1913 y muerto en París, en 1960, se manifestó al gran público con una novela breve, El extranjero, que en poco tiempo adquirió resonancia universal. Considerado, junto con Sartre, como la revelación más importante de la literatura francesa de posguerra y uno de los principales teóricos del existencialismo, su ideología filosófica, así como su punto de vista político, ético y estético sobre nuestra sociedad se perfilan ya claramente en El mito de Sísifo, donde estudia el fenómeno de una sensibilidad absurda que puede encontrarse dispersa a lo largo del siglo pasado.

El mito de Sísifo es un ensayo filosófico de Albert Camus, originalmente publicado en francés en 1942 como Le Mythe de Sisyphe. El ensayo se abre con la siguiente cita de Píndaro: No te afanes, alma mía, por una vida inmortal, pero agota el ámbito de lo posible. El título del ensayo proviene de un atribulado personaje de la mitología griega. En él, Camus discute la cuestión del suicidio y el valor de la vida, presentando el mito de Sísifo como metáfora del esfuerzo inútil e incesante del hombre. De esta forma plantea la filosofía del absurdo, que mantiene que nuestras vidas son insignificantes y no tienen más valor que el de lo que creamos. Siendo el mundo tan fútil, Camus pregunta, ¿qué alternativa hay al suicidio? El ensayo se inicia: No hay sino un problema filosófico realmente serio: el suicidio. Sísifo, dentro de la mitología griega, como Prometeo, hizo enfadar a los dioses por su extraordinaria astucia. Como castigo, fue condenado a perder la vista y a empujar perpetuamente un peñasco gigante montaña arriba hasta la cima, sólo para que volviese a caer rodando hasta el valle, desde donde debía recogerlo y empujarlo nuevamente hasta la cumbre y así indefinidamente.

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"The French writer Albert Camus is best known for his novels and philosophical works, which are among the most influential of the twentieth century. But his journals, which he kept from 1935 to 1959, offer an intimate glimpse into his thinking at its most personal. Beautifully retranslated by Ryan Bloom and supplemented by an introduction by Alice Kaplan, Travels in the Americas presents the journals that Camus wrote during his eventful visits to the United States in 1946 and to South America in 1949. When Camus sailed to the US in 1946, he was virtually unknown to American audiences. All that was about to change-The Stranger, his first book translated into English, was about to be published, and he would soon be a literary star. By 1949, when he set out for South America, Camus was an international celebrity. Camus's journals from these two trips record his impressions, frustrations, and longings. Here are his vivid first impressions of New York City, his encounters with publishers and critics and assorted shipmates. Camus appears unguarded, his fallibility on full display. He is irritated by mediocrity and frustrated by his health. Yet he is also moved to rapture by landscapes, by women, or simply by the bounty of his own philosophical imagination. Long unavailable in English and now freshly translated and annotated, these journals let readers walk beside the existentialist thinker as he experiences the changes in his own life and in the world around him, openly describing his passions and preoccupations on the way, all in his inimitable style"--

"The first new American translation in more than seventy years, bringing the Nobel Prize winner's iconic novel to a new generation of readers"--

A daring critique of communism and how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain, Camus' essay examines the revolutions in France and Russia, and argues that since they were both guilty of producing tyranny and corruption, hope for the future lies only in revolt without revolution. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

From a variety of masterfully rendered perspectives, these six stories depict people at painful odds with the world around them. A wife can only surrender to a desert night by betraying her husband. An artist struggles to honor his own aspirations as well as society's expectations of him. A missionary brutally converted to the worship of a tribal fetish is left with but an echo of his identity. Whether set in North Africa, Paris, or Brazil, the stories in Exile and the Kingdom are probing portraits of spiritual exile, and man's perpetual search for an inner kingdom in which to be reborn. They display Camus at the height of his powers.

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With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, Camus's masterpiece gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach. Behind the intrigue, Camus explores what he termed the nakedness of man faced with the absurd and describes the condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life.

Endorsements:"The reissue of Camus' seminal essay, 'Neither Victims nor Executioners,' could hardly be more timely. In Iraq and Afghanistan, the hideous march to oblivion goes on apace. America is ironically reversing the ethic proposed by Camus' title. American adventuring, playing the part of omnipotent executioner, is creating multitudes of victims. No search is undertaken for a 'third way.' Indeed, were the Camus thesis proposed, it would evoke only wide-eyed innocent arrogance. Kennedy and Klotz-Chamberlin have dedicated a lifetime to the 'third way' commended by Camus. Our gratitude to our mentors for a prescient, timely introduction."--Fr. Daniel Berrigan, SJ"Pacifists are not looking for a Utopian outlook nor unrealistic expectations. Many said, 'South Africa will not change.' But it did. Others looked at Northern Ireland and, it took years, but it also changed. The Soviet Union changed. The Middle East will change but not through violence or murder. We still think of ourselves within borders, protecting ourselves from others, Europe took its borders away and they are better. South, Central, and North America should take away their borders, as well as people in the Middle East. . . . We should build a culture of nonviolence through an understanding of human rights without regard to race, religion, and nationality."--Mubarak Awad, founder of Nonviolence International"If we spontaneously approve of nuclear terrorism, if we become apologists for the uninhibited use of naked power, we are thinking like Communists, we are behaving like Nazis, and we are well on the way to becoming either one or the other. In that event we had better face the fact that we are destroying our own Christian heritage."--Thomas Merton Author Biography:Albert Camus (November 7, 1913 - January 4, 1960) was a French author and philosopher and one of the principal luminaries (with Jean-Paul Sartre) of existentialism. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.

In the story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sun-drenched Algerian beach, Camus was exploring what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd". Now in a new American translation, the classic has been given new life for generations to come.

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

In the speech he gave upon accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, Albert Camus said that a writer "cannot serve today those who make history; he must serve those who are subject to it." And in these twenty-three political essays, he demonstrates his commitment to history's victims, from the fallen maquis of the French Resistance to the casualties of the Cold War. Resistance, Rebellion and Death displays Camus' rigorous moral intelligence addressing issues that range from colonial warfare in Algeria to the social cancer of capital punishment. But this stirring book is above all a reflection on the problem of freedom, and, as such, belongs in the same tradition as the works that gave Camus his reputation as the conscience of our century: The Stranger, The Rebel, and The Myth of Sisyphus.

A gripping tale of human horror, survival and resilience, and of the ways in which humankind confronts death. This is a Welsh adaptation by Anna Gruffydd of La Peste, a masterfully crafted novel, eloquently understated and epic in scope, and a parable of ageless moral resonance, profoundly relevant to our times during the Covid age.