Personal Writings, 9780241400272
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Camus’s intimate reflections on identity, childhood, and the Mediterranean sun.

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  • Paperback

    224 pages

  • Release Date

    27 August 2020

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Summary

Camus’s Intimate Echoes: A Mediterranean Trilogy

This collection unveils three of Albert Camus’s most personal and lyrical works: The Right Side and the Wrong Side, Nuptials, and Summer.

Within these pages, discover Camus reflecting on his identity and childhood in Algeria, celebrating the profound beauty of the Mediterranean.

  • The Wrong Side and the Right Side: Camus’s debut, an openly autobiographical work, paints vivid portraits of his ear…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241400272
ISBN-10:0241400279
Series:Penguin Modern Classics
Author:Albert Camus, Justin O'Brien
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:224
Release Date:27 August 2020
Weight:110g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm x 13mm
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Critics Review

It was the discovery of the essays celebrating his childhood and youth that altered my perception of him, from a thinker to a writer whose intellectual lucidity was a product of the wealth - the sensual immediacy and clarity - that had been heaped on his senses – Geoff DyerProbably no European writer of his time left so deep a mark on the imagination – Conor Cruise O’BrienWhat will strike many readers is the author’s extraordinarily evocative language, his astonishing facility to create memorable phrases and take readers to places most have never been but where, because of his artistry, they feel immediately at home. Much eloquent-often lyrical-evidence that the author deserved his Nobel Prize. * Kirkus Reviews *

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 a renowned translator of Andre Gide and Albert Camus, both of whom were his intimate friends.

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