Albert Camus

History / Characters: 18 males 2 femalesScenery: ExteriorCaligula explores the absolutism of power and the catastrophe of tyranny. Caesar summons his council whose first thought is of taxes. Very well says Caesar if taxes are more important than human hearts he may safely kill without conscience. He pursues the logic to the bitter end. In the last scene he is murdered an ending he knew was inevitable. "Has given the theatre a red hot glow." N. Y. World Telegram & Sun.

Alati tuore kulttikirja. Sivullinen on monitulkintainen romaani nuoresta algerianranskalaisesta miehestä, joka tulee tappaneeksi miehen ja tuomitaan teostaan kuolemaan. Teos on pohjimmiltaan kertomus miehestä, joka ilman sankarin elkeitä on valmis kuolemaan totuuden puolesta. Ranskalainen Albert Camus (1913–1960) sai Nobelin kirjallisuuspalkinnon vuonna 1957. Vuonna 1942 ilmestynyttä Sivullista pidetään Camus'n onnistuneimpana teoksena.

"Les Possédés sont une des quatre ou cinq oeuvres que je mets au-dessus de toutes les autres. À plus d’un titre, je peux dire que je m’en suis nourri et que je m’y suis formé. Il y a près de vingt ans en tous cas que je vois ses personnages sur la scène. Ils n’ont pas seulement la stature des personnages dramatiques, ils en ont la conduite, les explosions, l’allure rapide et déconcertante. Dostoïevski, du reste, a, dans ses romans, une technique de théâtre : il procède par dialogues, avec quelques indications de lieux et de mouvements. L’homme de théâtre, qu’il soit acteur, metteur en scène ou auteur, trouve toujours auprès de lui tous les renseignements dont il a besoin. Aujourd’hui, voici Les Possédés sur la scène. Pour les y porter, il a fallu plusieurs années de travail et d’obstination. Et pourtant, je sais, je mesure tout ce qui sépare la pièce de ce prodigieux roman ! J’ai simplement tenté de suivre le mouvement profond du livre et d’aller comme lui de la comédie satirique au drame, puis à la tragédie." Albert Camus.

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Paris is firing all its ammunition into the August night. Against a vast backdrop of water and stone, on both sides of a river awash with history, freedom's barricades are once again being erected. Once again justice must be redeemed with men's blood. Albert Camus (1913-1960) wrote these words in August 1944, as Paris was being liberated from German occupation. Although best known for his novels including The Stranger and The Plague, it was his vivid descriptions of the horrors of the occupation and his passionate defense of freedom that in fact launched his public fame. Now, for the first time in English, Camus at 'Combat' presents all of Camus' World War II resistance and early postwar writings published in Combat, the resistance newspaper where he served as editor-in-chief and editorial writer between 1944 and 1947. These 165 articles and editorials show how Camus' thinking evolved from support of a revolutionary transformation of postwar society to a wariness of the radical left alongside his longstanding strident opposition to the reactionary right. These are poignant depictions of issues ranging from the liberation, deportation, justice for collaborators, the return of POWs, and food and housing shortages, to the postwar role of international institutions, colonial injustices, and the situation of a free press in democracies. The ideas that shaped the vision of this Nobel-prize winning novelist and essayist are on abundant display. More than fifty years after the publication of these writings, they have lost none of their force. They still speak to us about freedom, justice, truth, and democracy.

A compelling new translation of a collection of short fiction by the Nobel Prize-winning author explores the challenges of being an outsider--even in one's own country--and of allegiance, as it moves from Paris, to the harsh deserts of North Africa, to the wild jungles of Brazil. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.

Camus' flittig leste klassiker fra 1942. Camus tar her et oppgjør med den den religiøse eksistensialisme fra Kierkegaard og den ateistiske eksistensialisme fremført blant annet av Jean-Paul Sartre - de er begge åndelige sykdommer. I stedet fremhever han en gresk-inspirert humanisme som et ideal for den menneskelige livsform. Oversatt og med etterord av Bernt Vestre. Nr. 18 i Cappelens upopulære skrifter.

"Chuma" Albera Kamju - eto roman-pritcha. V gorod prikhodit strashnaja bolezn - i ljudi nachinajut umirat. Ottsy goroda, skryvaja pravdu, delajut zhitelej zalozhnikami epidemii. I kazhdyj stoit pered vyborom: borotsja za zhizn, iskat vykhod ili smiritsja s gospodstvom chumy, s neizbezhnoj smertju. Mnogie literaturnye kritiki "prochityvajut" v romane sobytija vo Frantsii v period fashistskoj okkupatsii.

The stories of Exile and the Kingdom explore the dilemma of being an outsider - even in one's own country - and of allegiance. With intense power and lyricism, Camus evokes beautiful but harsh landscapes, whether the shimmering deserts of his native Algeria or the wild, mysterious jungles of Brazil. Here a Frenchwoman is gradually seduced by the sheer difference of North Africa, a mutilated renegade is driven mad by the cruelty of his own people, and a barrel-maker watches the slow decline of his craft. A kindly teacher must choose between the law and a life, while a modest painter is out of his depth in the hypocrisy of the art world, and a French engineer discovers a new sense of belonging in a distant land. 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. Carol Cosman is the translator of many works from French, both literary and scholarly. Among the books she has translated are Jean-Paul Sartre's "The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857," Honoré de Balzac's "Colonel Chabert," Simone de Beauvoir's "America Day by Day," and most recently René Daumal's "Mount Analogue".