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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.
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The Fall (Hardcover)
Albert Camus; Translated by Robin Buss
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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.
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The Plague (Paperback, New Ed)
Albert Camus; Edited by Tony Judt; Translated by Robin Buss
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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
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.
'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.
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The Outsider (Paperback, Ed)
Albert Camus; Translated by Sandra Smith
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'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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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The Plague (Hardcover)
Albert Camus; Translated by Laura Marris
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The Outsider (Paperback)
Albert Camus; Translated by Sandra Smith
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'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.
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L'Etranger (Hardcover)
Albert Camus; Edited by Ray Davison
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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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The Fall (Paperback)
Albert Camus; Translated by Robin Buss
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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
Introduction by Peter Dunwoody; Translation by Matthew Ward
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The Rebel (Paperback, New Ed)
Albert Camus; Introduction by Olivier Todd; Translated by Anthony Bower
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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.
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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