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Personal Writings

Author: Albert Camus and Justin O'Brien   Series: Penguin Modern Classics

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A collection that includes three of Camus's most personal and lyrical books- The Right Side and the Wrong Side , Nuptials and Summer

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A collection that includes three of Camus's most personal and lyrical books- The Right Side and the Wrong Side , Nuptials and Summer

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A collection that includes three of Camus's most personal and lyrical books- The Right Side and the Wrong Side, Nuptials and SummerThis volume contains some of Camus' most intimate writing, as he reflects on his identity and childhood in Algeria and celebrates the beauty of the Mediterranean. The Wrong Side and the Right Side, Camus' first book and most openly autobiographical work, describes his early years in a working-class neighbourhood in Algiers and includes memorable portraits of his mother, grandmother and uncle. Nuptials rejoices in the sun, landscape and sea, and the physical and spiritual freedom they offer to even the poorest. And in Summer Camus evocatively depicts the sunlit cities of Algiers and Oran.

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Critic Reviews

“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 Dyer
Probably no European writer of his time left so deep a mark on the imagination -- Conor Cruise O'Brien
What 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

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About the Author

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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Product Details

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd | Penguin Classics
Published
27th August 2020
Pages
224
ISBN
9780241400272

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