Albert Camus

A young Algerian, Meursault, afflicted with a sort of aimless inertia, becomes embroiled in the petty intrigues of a local pimp and, somewhat inexplicably, ends up killing a man. Once he's imprisoned and eventually brought to trial, his crime, it becomes apparent, is not so much the arguably defensible murder he has committed as it is his deficient character. In the story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sun-drenched...

"The people of Oran, a coastal town in North Africa, are in the grip of a deadly plague that condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. The plague begins with a series of unheeded warnings: panic, isolation, and claustrophobia soon follow, as the townspeople are force into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way: some resign themselves to fate, some seek blame, and a few, like Dr. Rieux, resist the terror."--Provided by publisher. "The...

"Quand la sonnerie a encore retenti, que la porte du box s'est ouverte, c'est le silence de la salle qui est monté vers moi, le silence, et cette singulière sensation que j'ai eue lorsque j'ai constaté que le jeune journaliste avait détourné les yeux. Je n'ai pas regardé du côté de Marie. Je n'en ai pas eu le temps parce que le président m'a dit dans une forme bizarre que j'aurais la tête tranchée sur une place publique au nom du peuple...

El caos prevalece cuando la peste bubónica golpea la ciudad costera argelina de Orán. La novela de Camus, una inquietante historia de la resiliencia humana frente al horror incesante, sobre una peste bubónica que asola a la gente de una ciudad costera del norte de África, es un clásico de la literatura del siglo XX. Chaos prevails when the bubonic plague strikes the Algerian coastal city of Oran. A haunting tale of human resilience in the face...

Written in his early twenties and retrieved from his private papers following his death in 1960, A HAPPY DEATH is a remarkably candid portrait of its author as a young man. As the novel follows the protagonist, Patrice, to his victim's house--and then, fleeing, in a journey that takes him through stages of exile, hedonism, privation, and death--it gives readers a glimpse into the imagination of one of the great writers of the 20th century.

"Four thought-provoking masterworks for the theater by the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Stranger and The Plague, in a restorative new American translation by Ryan Bloom that brings together, for the first time in English, Camus's final versions of the plays, along with deleted scenes and alternate lines of dialogue. Though known for his novels that plumb the depths of absurdism, it was the theater stage that Camus called "one of the only places...

Una audaz crítica del comunismo y de cómo salió mal detrás de la Cortina de Hierro, el ensayo de Camus examina las revoluciones en Francia y Rusia, y argumenta que, dado que ambas fueron culpables de producir tiranía y corrupción, la esperanza para el futuro radica solo en la rebelión sin revolución. A lo largo de la historia, algunos libros han cambiado el mundo. Han transformado la forma en que nos vemos a nosotros mismos y a los demás....

Publicada originalmente en 1942, El extranjero es la primera novela de Albert Camus y una de sus obras m̀s emblem̀ticas. Ahora con nueva traducci̤n al espąol de Mar̕a Teresa Gallego Urrutia y Amaya Garc̕a Gallego, este libro capital para la cultura del siglo XX transcurre en Argelia y narra la anodina vida de Meursault, un joven oficinista que vive en perpetua apat̕a. Cuando recibe la noticia del fallecimiento de su madre, la encaja con la...

In 1954 a reclusive ex-soldier is thrown into the woes of rebellion when he's ordered to escort a villager accused of murder to prison during the Algerian War. As their journey leads them through a deadly fire-fight between settlers and rebels, the two men on opposite sides of the conflict must join forces to survive.