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The day his mother dies, Meursault notices that it is very hot on
the bus that is taking him from Algiers to the retirement home
where his mother lived; so hot that he falls asleep. Later, while
waiting for the wake to begin, the harsh electric lights in the
room make him extremely uncomfortable, so he gratefully accepts the
coffee the caretaker offers him and smokes a cigarette. The same
burning sun that so oppresses him during the funeral walk will once
again blind the calm, reserved Meursault as he walks along a
deserted beach a few days later-leading him to commit an
irreparable act. This new illustrated edition of Camus's classic
novel The Stranger portrays an enigmatic man who commits a
senseless crime and then calmly, and apparently indifferently, sits
through his trial and hears himself condemned to death.
This new illustrated of Camus's final novel tells the story of
Jacques Cormery, a boy who lived a life much like Camus's own. This
stunning, fully illustrated edition summons up the sights, sounds
and textures of a childhood defined by poverty and a father's
death, yet redeemed by the austere beauty of Algeria-and the young
protagonist's attachment to his nearly deaf-mute mother. In telling
the story of his metaphorical search for his father, who died in
World War I, Camus returns to the "land of oblivion where each one
is the first man" and must find his own answers. Published
thirty-five years after its discovery amid the wreckage of the car
accident that killed the Nobel Prize-winning novelist, this graphic
interpretation of The First Man is the brilliant consummation of
the life and work of one of the twenty century's greatest authors.
'An exemplary critical edition of Ferrand's treatise of 1610 on
erotic melancholy, preceded by an introductory essay (of nine
chapters) in which they examine the place of erotic ideas in
Renaissance culture.....A compendium of 2,000 years of ideas about
love.' - The Times Literary Supplement
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