Create Dangerously: Albert Camus (Penguin Modern) - Softcover

Camus, Albert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 024133912X ISBN 13: 9780241339121

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2018

Synopsis

'To create today is to create dangerously'

Camus argues passionately that the artist has a responsibility to challenge, provoke and speak up for those who cannot in this powerful speech, accompanied here by two others.

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About this title

About the Author:

French novelist, essayist, and playwright. Albert Camus (1913-1960) was a representative of non-metropolitan French literature. His origin in Algeria and his experiences there in the thirties were dominating influences in his thought and work. Among his works, The Plague (1947), The Just (1949) The Fall (1956). He was killed in a road accident in 1960. His last novel, The First Man, unfinished at the time of his death, appeared for the first time in 1994.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 024133912X
• ISBN 13: 9780241339121
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 64