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Die Pes (Afrikaans, Paperback): Albert Camus Die Pes (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Albert Camus; Translated by Piet De Jager 1
R76 Discovery Miles 760 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Hierdie klassieke roman van die befaamde Franse skrywer Albert Camus handel oor die lotgevalle van ’n klompie mense wat in die Algerynse stad Oran vasgekeer word wanneer builepes daar uitbreek. Die hoofkarakter, dr. Bernard Rieux, word die eerste keer bewus van iets buitengewoons wanneer groot klompe rotte vrek in die woonstelgebou waar hy bly. Gaandeweg word hy al meer by die behandeling van die siekes betrek en word hy toeskouer van hoe verskillende mense reageer wanneer toestande al hagliker en benouender word. Sy band met ander mense, soos die toeris Tarrou, die joernalis Rambert en die staatsamptenaar Grand word deur hulle betrokkenheid by die verloop van die pes versterk, terwyl hulle na die sluiting van die stadspoorte al hoe meer bewus word van hulle afsondering en die afwesigheid van geliefdes. Camus se roman is al gelees as allegorie van die besetting van Frankryk gedurende die Tweede Wereldoorlog en die pes kan beskou word as enige bedreiging vir menslike vryheid. Die bedreiging van 'n epidemie soos vigs verleen aan hierdie roman besondere relevansie vir Suid-Afrikaanse lesers.

The Fall (Hardcover): Albert Camus The Fall (Hardcover)
Albert Camus; Translated by Robin Buss
R313 R256 Discovery Miles 2 560 Save R57 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil. Jean-Baptiste Clamence - refined, handsome, forty, a former successful lawyer - is in turmoil. Over several drunken nights he regales a chance acquaintance with his story. He talks of parties and his debauchery, of Parisian nights and the Aegean sea, and, ultimately, of his self-loathing. One of Albert Camus' most famous works, The Fall is a brilliant, complex portrayal of lost innocence and the true face of man.

El Extranjero/El Mito del Sisifo (English, Spanish, Paperback): Albert Camus El Extranjero/El Mito del Sisifo (English, Spanish, Paperback)
Albert Camus
R448 R370 Discovery Miles 3 700 Save R78 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Plague (Paperback, New Ed): Albert Camus The Plague (Paperback, New Ed)
Albert Camus; Edited by Tony Judt; Translated by Robin Buss 1
R270 R211 Discovery Miles 2 110 Save R59 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

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 responding in their own way to the lethal bacillus: 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, Camus’s novel is in part an allegory for France’s suffering under Nazi occupation, and also a story of bravery and determination against the precariousness of human existence.

‘An impressive new translation … of this matchless fable of fear, courage and cowardice’
Independent

Translated by Robin Buss with an Introduction by Tony Judt

Travels in the Americas - Notes and Impressions of a New World (Hardcover): Albert Camus Travels in the Americas - Notes and Impressions of a New World (Hardcover)
Albert Camus; Edited by Alice Kaplan; Translated by Ryan Bloom
R579 R473 Discovery Miles 4 730 Save R106 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Der Erste Mensch (Paperback): Albert Camus Der Erste Mensch (Paperback)
Albert Camus
R389 Discovery Miles 3 890 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Create Dangerously (Paperback): Albert Camus Create Dangerously (Paperback)
Albert Camus 1
R50 R40 Discovery Miles 400 Save R10 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

'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 Outsider (Paperback, Ed): Albert Camus The Outsider (Paperback, Ed)
Albert Camus; Translated by Sandra Smith 1
R273 R220 Discovery Miles 2 200 Save R53 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'My mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know.' In The Outsider (1942), his classic existentialist novel, Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to social norms. Meursault, his anti-hero, will not lie. When his mother dies, he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others. And when he commits a random act of violence on a sun-drenched beach near Algiers, his lack of remorse compounds his guilt in the eyes of society and the law. Yet he is as much a victim as a criminal. Albert Camus' portrayal of a man confronting the absurd, and revolting against the injustice of society, depicts the paradox of man's joy in life when faced with the 'tender indifference' of the world. Sandra Smith's translation, based on close listening to a recording of Camus reading his work aloud on French radio in 1954, sensitively renders the subtleties and dream-like atmosphere of L'Etranger. Albert Camus (1913-1960), French novelist, essayist and playwright, is one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century. His most famous works include The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), The Plague (1947), The Just (1949), The Rebel (1951) and The Fall (1956). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, and his last novel, The First Man, unfinished at the time of his death, appeared in print for the first time in 1994, and was published in English soon after by Hamish Hamilton. Sandra Smith was born and raised in New York City and is a Fellow of Robinson College, University of Cambridge, where she teaches French Literature and Language. She has won the French American Foundation Florence Gould Foundation Translation Prize, as well as the PEN Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize.

The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback): Albert Camus The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
Albert Camus 2
R243 R196 Discovery Miles 1 960 Save R47 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

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.;Inspired by the myth of a man condemned to ceaselessly push a rock up a mountain and watch it roll back to the valley below, The Myth of Sisyphus transformed twentieth-century philosophy with its impassioned argument for the value of life in a world without religious meaning.

Caligula and Three Other Plays (Paperback): Albert Camus Caligula and Three Other Plays (Paperback)
Albert Camus
R518 R405 Discovery Miles 4 050 Save R113 (22%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback, New Ed): Albert Camus The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback, New Ed)
Albert Camus; Translated by Justin O'Brien 2
R270 R211 Discovery Miles 2 110 Save R59 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

The Myth of Sisyphus is one of the most profound philosophical statements written this century. It is a discussion of the central idea of Absurdity that Camus was to develop in his novel The Outsider. Here Camus poses the fundamental question: Is life worth living? If existence has ceased to retain significance when confronted with the fragmented reality of the human condition, what then can keep us from suicide? Camus movingly 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 Plague - A new translation by Laura Marris (Paperback): Albert Camus The Plague - A new translation by Laura Marris (Paperback)
Albert Camus; Translated by Laura Marris
R453 R343 Discovery Miles 3 430 Save R110 (24%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Stranger (Paperback, Reissued 1st Ed): Albert Camus The Stranger (Paperback, Reissued 1st Ed)
Albert Camus
R330 R258 Discovery Miles 2 580 Save R72 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Through 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 1946; now in a new translation by Matthew Ward.

Caligula and Three Other Plays: Albert Camus Caligula and Three Other Plays
Albert Camus; Translated by Ryan Bloom
R380 R297 Discovery Miles 2 970 Save R83 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

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 dialogue Caligula/The Misunderstanding /State of Emergency/The Just Although 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.

The Myth Of Sisyphus (Paperback): Albert Camus The Myth Of Sisyphus (Paperback)
Albert Camus
R415 R310 Discovery Miles 3 100 Save R105 (25%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Plague (Hardcover): Albert Camus The Plague (Hardcover)
Albert Camus; Translated by Laura Marris
R711 R544 Discovery Miles 5 440 Save R167 (23%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Outsider (Paperback): Albert Camus The Outsider (Paperback)
Albert Camus; Translated by Sandra Smith
R272 R219 Discovery Miles 2 190 Save R53 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'One of those books that marks a reader's life indelibly' William Boyd 'A compelling, dreamlike fable' Guardian In The Outsider, Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to social norms. Meursault, his anti-hero, will not lie. When his mother dies, he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others. And when he commits a random act of violence on a sun-drenched beach near Algiers, his lack of remorse compounds his guilt in the eyes of society and the law. Yet he is as much a victim as a criminal.

L'Etranger (Hardcover): Albert Camus L'Etranger (Hardcover)
Albert Camus; Edited by Ray Davison
R5,335 Discovery Miles 53 350 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

L'Etranger has the force and fascination of myth. The outwardly simple narrative of an office clerk who kills an Arab, 'a cause du soleil', and finds himself condemned to death for moral insensibility becomes, in Camus's hands, a powerful image of modern man's impatience before Christian philosophy and conventional social and sexual values. For this new edition Ray Davison makes use of recent critical analysis of L'Etranger to give a full and concise description of Camus's early philosophy of the Absurd and the ideas and preoccupations from which the novel emerges. Davison also discusses the developing pattern of Camus's notion of the art of the novel, his views on 'classicism', simplicity and ambiguity, his fondness for paradox, and his love of everyday situations which yield to mythical interpretation.

The Fall (Paperback): Albert Camus The Fall (Paperback)
Albert Camus; Translated by Robin Buss
R243 R196 Discovery Miles 1 960 Save R47 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

A philosophical novel described by fellow existentialist Sartre as 'perhaps the most beautiful and the least understood' of his novels, Albert Camus' The Fall is translated by Robin Buss in Penguin Modern Classics. Jean-Baptiste Clamence is a soul in turmoil. Over several drunken nights in an Amsterdam bar, he regales a chance acquaintance with his story. From this successful former lawyer and seemingly model citizen a compelling, self-loathing catalogue of guilt, hypocrisy and alienation pours forth. The Fall (1956) is a brilliant portrayal of a man who has glimpsed the hollowness of his existence. But beyond depicting one man's disillusionment, Camus's novel exposes the universal human condition and its absurdities - for our innocence that, once lost, can never be recaptured ... Albert Camus (1913-60) 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. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, Camus 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. If you enjoyed The Fall, you might like Jean-Paul Sartre's Nausea, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'An irresistibly brilliant examination of modern conscience' The New York Times 'Camus is the accused, his own prosecutor and advocate. The Fall might have been called "The Last Judgement" ' Olivier Todd

The Stranger - Introduction by Keith Gore (Hardcover): Albert Camus The Stranger - Introduction by Keith Gore (Hardcover)
Albert Camus; Translated by Matthew Ward; Introduction by Keith Gore
R622 R465 Discovery Miles 4 650 Save R157 (25%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Introduction by Peter Dunwoody; Translation by Matthew Ward

The Rebel (Paperback, New Ed): Albert Camus The Rebel (Paperback, New Ed)
Albert Camus; Introduction by Olivier Todd; Translated by Anthony Bower
R310 R253 Discovery Miles 2 530 Save R57 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Camus described this brilliant essay on the nature of human revolt as 'an attempt to understand the time I live in'. Published in 1951, it expresses his horror at the events of a period which 'within fifty years, uproots, enslaves, or kills seventy million human beings'. Hope for the future, he argues lies in revolt, which unlike revolution, is a spontaneous response to injustice and a chance to achieve change without giving up individual or collective freedom .

The Rebel created an irreconcilable rift between Camus and his friend Jean-Paul Sartre who bitterly attacked Camus for his criticism of communism.

El mito de Sisifo / The Myth of Sisyphus (Spanish, Paperback): Albert Camus El mito de Sisifo / The Myth of Sisyphus (Spanish, Paperback)
Albert Camus
R342 R282 Discovery Miles 2 820 Save R60 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Der Mytjos von Sisyphos (German, Paperback): Albert Camus Der Mytjos von Sisyphos (German, Paperback)
Albert Camus
R374 Discovery Miles 3 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Peste, LA (Paperback): Albert Camus Peste, LA (Paperback)
Albert Camus
R356 Discovery Miles 3 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
L'Etranger (Paperback, New Ed): Albert Camus L'Etranger (Paperback, New Ed)
Albert Camus; Edited by Ray Davison
R1,191 Discovery Miles 11 910 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

L'Etranger has the force and fascination of myth. The outwardly simple narrative of an office clerk who kills an Arab, 'a cause du soleil', and finds himself condemned to death for moral insensibility becomes, in Camus's hands, a powerful image of modern man's impatience before Christian philosophy and conventional social and sexual values. For this new edition Ray Davison makes use of recent critical analysis of L'Etranger to give a full and concise description of Camus's early philosophy of the Absurd and the ideas and preoccupations from which the novel emerges. Davison also discusses the developing pattern of Camus's notion of the art of the novel, his views on 'classicism', simplicity and ambiguity, his fondness for paradox, and his love of everyday situations which yield to mythical interpretation.

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