The First Man - Hardcover

Camus, Albert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0783816014 ISBN 13: 9780783816012

Publisher: G K Hall & Co,US, 2011

Synopsis

Traces the story of Jacques Cormery, a young man who rose above the loses and misfortunes of his childhood in Algeria

About this title

About the Author

Albert Camus was born in Algeria in 1913. His childhood was poor but not unhappy. He studied philosophy at the University of Algiers and became a journalist. After the occupation of France by the Germans in 1941, Camus became one of the intellectual leaders of the resistance movement. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. He was killed in a road accident in 1960. His novels include THE OUTSIDER, THE PLAGUE and THE REBEL.

From the Inside Flap

Camus tells the story of Jacques Cormery, a boy who lived a life much like his own. Camus summons up the sights, sounds and textures of a childhood circumscribed by poverty and a father's death yet redeemed by the austere beauty of Algeria and the boy's attachment to his nearly deaf-mute mother. Published thirty-five years after its discovery amid the wreckage of the car accident that killed Camus, The First Man is the brilliant consummation of the life and work of one of the 20th century's greatest novelists. Translated from the French by David Hapgood.

"The First Man is perhaps the most honest book Camus ever wrote, and the most sensual...Camus is...writing at the depth of his powers...It is a work of genius."--The New Yorker

"Fascinating...The First Man helps put all of Camus's work into a clearer perspective and brings into relief what separates him from the more militant literary personalities of his day...Camus's voice has never been more personal."--New York Times Book Review

Edition details

• Publisher: G K Hall & Co,US
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0783816014
• ISBN 13: 9780783816012
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 359