Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Albert Camus
SeriesVintage International
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:288
Dimensions(mm): Height 203,Width 132
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780679764014
ClassificationsDewey:844.914
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Random House USA Inc
Imprint Vintage Books
Publication Date 29 August 1995
Publication Country United States

Description

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER * Twenty-three political essays that focus on the victims of history, from the fallen maquis of the French Resistance to the casualties of the Cold War. In the speech he gave upon accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, Albert Camus said that a writer "cannot serve today those who make history; he must serve those who are subject to it." Resistance, Rebellion and Death displays Camus' rigorous moral intelligence addressing issues that range from colonial warfare in Algeria to the social cancer of capital punishment. But this stirring book is above all a reflection on the problem of freedom, and, as such, belongs in the same tradition as the works that gave Camus his reputation as the conscience of our century: The Stranger, The Rebel, and The Myth of Sisyphus.

Author Biography

ALBERT CAMUS was born in Algeria in 1913. He 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.

Reviews

"Resistance, Rebellion, and Death bears witness to the passionately scrupulous sense of responsibility which made Camus the kind of man and the kind of writer he was." -The Christian Science Monitor