Reflections on the Guillotine
$16.02
- Paperback
96 pages
- Release Date
30 November 2020
Summary
The Obscene Exhibition: Camus on the Guillotine
“When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out.”
Written when execution by guillotine was still legal in France, Albert Camus’ devastating attack on the “obscene exhibition” of capital punishment remains one of the most powerful, persuasive arguments ever made against the death penalty.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241475225 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241475228 |
| Series: | Penguin Great Ideas |
| Author: | Albert Camus |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 30 November 2020 |
| Weight: | 65g |
| Dimensions: | 181mm x 111mm x 7mm |
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About The Author
Albert Camus
Albert Camus (1913-60) 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.
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