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Happy Death (Paperback, 1st Vintage International Ed)

Albert Camus

Series: Vintage International

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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.

Translated from the French by Richard Howard

General

Imprint: Vintage Books
Country of origin: United States
Series: Vintage International
Release date: August 1995
First published: August 1995
Authors: Albert Camus
Dimensions: 203 x 133 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
Edition: 1st Vintage International Ed
ISBN-13: 978-0-679-76400-7
Categories: Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN: 0-679-76400-3
Barcode: 9780679764007

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