Committed Writings
$22.37
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
16 December 2020
Summary
The Artist’s Responsibility: Political Writings by Albert Camus
This volume gathers some of Albert Camus’ most powerful political writings, reflecting on moral responsibility and the artist’s role in society.
‘Letters to a German Friend,’ written in 1943, marks Camus’ initial wartime intervention, aiming to ‘make our battle more effective.’
‘Reflections on the Guillotine’ presents his impassioned argument against the death penalty.
In his Nobel speeches, Camu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241400401 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241400406 |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Author: | Albert Camus, Justin O'Brien, Alice Kaplan |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 16 December 2020 |
| Weight: | 124g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 10mm |
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Probably no European writer of his time left so deep a mark on the imagination
Probably no European writer of his time left so deep a mark on the imagination – Conor Cruise O’BrienCamus helps you become “the one you are”. And the revolt he incites, an assertion of individual freedom, brings you into a recognition of common human suffering and of the common need to lessen it and to enliven the lives of all – David Constantine
About The Author
Albert Camus
Albert Camus (1913-1960) grew up in a working-class neighbourhood in Algiers. He studied philosophy at the University of Algiers, and became a journalist. His most important works include The Outsider, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Plague and The Fall. After the occupation of France by the Germans in 1941, Camus became one of the intellectual leaders of the Resistance movement. He was killed in a road accident, and his last unfinished novel, The First Man, appeared posthumously.
Justin O’Brien was the Blanche W. Knopf Professor of French Literature at Columbia University and renowed translator of Andre Gide and Albert Camus, both of whom were his intimate friends.
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