Author: Albert Camus
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
ISBN: 9781566638722
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From 1935 until his death, Albert Camus kept a series of notebooks to sketch out ideas for future works, record snatches of conversations and excerpts from books he was reading, and jot down his reflections on death and the horror of war, his feelings about women and loneliness and art, and his appreciations for the Algerian sun and sea. These three volumes, now available together for the first time in paperback, include all entries made from the time when Camus was still completely unknown in Europe, until he was killed in an automobile accident in 1960, at the height of his creative powers. In 1957 he had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. A spiritual and intellectual autobiography, Camus' Notebooks are invariably more concerned with what he felt than with what he did. It is intriguing for the reader to watch him seize and develop certain themes and ideas, discard others that at first seemed promising, and explore different types of experience. Although the Notebooks may have served Camus as a practice ground, the prose is of superior quality, which makes a short spontaneous vignette or a moment of sensuous beauty quickly captured on the page a small work of art.Here is a record of one of the most unusual minds of our time.
Notebooks, 1935-1942
Author: Albert Camus
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
ISBN: 9781566638722
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From 1935 until his death, Albert Camus kept a series of notebooks to sketch out ideas for future works, record snatches of conversations and excerpts from books he was reading, and jot down his reflections on death and the horror of war, his feelings about women and loneliness and art, and his appreciations for the Algerian sun and sea. These three volumes, now available together for the first time in paperback, include all entries made from the time when Camus was still completely unknown in Europe, until he was killed in an automobile accident in 1960, at the height of his creative powers. In 1957 he had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. A spiritual and intellectual autobiography, Camus' Notebooks are invariably more concerned with what he felt than with what he did. It is intriguing for the reader to watch him seize and develop certain themes and ideas, discard others that at first seemed promising, and explore different types of experience. Although the Notebooks may have served Camus as a practice ground, the prose is of superior quality, which makes a short spontaneous vignette or a moment of sensuous beauty quickly captured on the page a small work of art.Here is a record of one of the most unusual minds of our time.
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
ISBN: 9781566638722
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From 1935 until his death, Albert Camus kept a series of notebooks to sketch out ideas for future works, record snatches of conversations and excerpts from books he was reading, and jot down his reflections on death and the horror of war, his feelings about women and loneliness and art, and his appreciations for the Algerian sun and sea. These three volumes, now available together for the first time in paperback, include all entries made from the time when Camus was still completely unknown in Europe, until he was killed in an automobile accident in 1960, at the height of his creative powers. In 1957 he had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. A spiritual and intellectual autobiography, Camus' Notebooks are invariably more concerned with what he felt than with what he did. It is intriguing for the reader to watch him seize and develop certain themes and ideas, discard others that at first seemed promising, and explore different types of experience. Although the Notebooks may have served Camus as a practice ground, the prose is of superior quality, which makes a short spontaneous vignette or a moment of sensuous beauty quickly captured on the page a small work of art.Here is a record of one of the most unusual minds of our time.
Notebooks, 1935-1951
Author: Albert Camus
Publisher: Marlowe
ISBN: 9781569246665
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Camus' diary and random notes which provided material for his later fiction
Publisher: Marlowe
ISBN: 9781569246665
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Camus' diary and random notes which provided material for his later fiction
Notebooks, 1942-1951
Author: Albert Camus
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Notebooks: 1942-1951. Translated from the French and annotated by J. O'Brien
Author: Albert Camus
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Camus's 1st vol. of Notebooks (1935-1942) ; translated from the French, and with a pref. and notes, by P. Thody. (His 2nd vol. included 1942-1951, translated from the French and annotated by J. O'Brien).
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Camus's 1st vol. of Notebooks (1935-1942) ; translated from the French, and with a pref. and notes, by P. Thody. (His 2nd vol. included 1942-1951, translated from the French and annotated by J. O'Brien).
Lyrical and Critical Essays
Author: Albert Camus
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030782778X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Edited by Philip Thody, translated by Ellen Conroy Kennedy. "Here now, for the first time in a complete English translation, we have Camus' three little volumes of essays, plus a selection of his critical comments on literature and his own place in it. As might be expected, the main interest of these writings is that they illuminate new facets of his usual subject matter."--The New York Times Book Review "...a new single work for American readers that stands among the very finest."--The Nation
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030782778X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Edited by Philip Thody, translated by Ellen Conroy Kennedy. "Here now, for the first time in a complete English translation, we have Camus' three little volumes of essays, plus a selection of his critical comments on literature and his own place in it. As might be expected, the main interest of these writings is that they illuminate new facets of his usual subject matter."--The New York Times Book Review "...a new single work for American readers that stands among the very finest."--The Nation
Notebooks 1951-1959
Author: Albert Camus
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781566638500
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This final volume, recorded over the last nine years of his life, takes on the characteristics of a personal diary.--[book jacket].
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781566638500
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This final volume, recorded over the last nine years of his life, takes on the characteristics of a personal diary.--[book jacket].
Notebooks, 1935-1942
Author: Albert Camus
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Selected Essays and Notebooks
Author: Albert Camus
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140180244
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
This selection from his essays. Lyrical and Critical, and from his private notebooks aims to present Camus as a writer and literary critic, as well as Camus the individual.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140180244
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
This selection from his essays. Lyrical and Critical, and from his private notebooks aims to present Camus as a writer and literary critic, as well as Camus the individual.
The First Man
Author: Albert Camus
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307827860
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
From the Nobel Prize-winning author comes the story of Jacques Cormery, a boy who lived a life much like his own, with the sights, sounds and textures of a childhood steeped in poverty and a father's death yet redeemed by the beauty of Algeria and the boy's attachment to his mother. "A work of genius." —The New Yorker 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 "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." —The New York Times Book Review
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307827860
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
From the Nobel Prize-winning author comes the story of Jacques Cormery, a boy who lived a life much like his own, with the sights, sounds and textures of a childhood steeped in poverty and a father's death yet redeemed by the beauty of Algeria and the boy's attachment to his mother. "A work of genius." —The New Yorker 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 "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." —The New York Times Book Review
Secret Spaces of Childhood
Author: Elizabeth Goodenough
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472068456
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
This eclectic, wide-ranging anthology of essays, art, poetry, fiction, and memoir gathers distinguished contributors, from Wole Soyinka to Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472068456
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
This eclectic, wide-ranging anthology of essays, art, poetry, fiction, and memoir gathers distinguished contributors, from Wole Soyinka to Joyce Carol Oates