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Availability:In StockContributor:Albert CamusSeries:Vintage InternationalPublish date:1995-08-29Pages:208
Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780679764007ISBN-10:679764003UPC:9780679764007Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Literary, AbsurdistSize:7.36 x 6.13 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.4299Product ID:SC0YBYQN58
The first novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author lays the foundation for The Stranger, telling the story of an Algerian clerk who kills a man in cold blood.

In A Happy Death, written when Albert Camus was in his early twenties and retrieved from his private papers following his death in 1960, revealed himself to an extent that he never would in his later fiction. For if A Happy Death is the study of a rule-bound being shattering the fetters of his existence, it is also a remarkably candid portrait of its author as a young man.

As the novel follows the protagonist, Patrice Mersault, to his victim's house -- and then, fleeing, in a journey that takes him through stages of exile, hedonism, privation, and death -it gives us a glimpse into the imagination of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. For here is the young Camus himself, in love with the sea and sun, enraptured by women yet disdainful of romantic love, and already formulating the philosophy of action and moral responsibility that would make him central to the thought of our time.

Translated from the French by Richard Howard
Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780679764007ISBN-10:679764003UPC:9780679764007Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Literary, AbsurdistSize:7.36 x 6.13 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.4299Product ID:SC0YBYQN58
Born in Algeria in 1913, Albert Camus published The Stranger--now one of the most widely read novels of this century--in 1942. Celebrated in intellectual circles, Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. On January 4, 1960, he was killed in a car accident.
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