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With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, Camus's masterpiece gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach.
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The only real question of philosophy is whether or not we should commit suicide, said Albert Camus.
In Camus’ humanism man must look within and without in order to feel relief from his suffering in seeing himself as part of the whole of mankind:
Without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
Albert Camus Nobel Prize Speech 1957
Albert Camus lived during a tumultuous time that included his experience of World War II and the Algerian War. Camus is most prominently known as an author of fine French literature but he was also a philosopher.
By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution.
But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searing study of modern amorality.
One of the most influential works of this century, The Myth of Sisyphus—featured here in a stand-alone edition—is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought.
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