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Exile and the Kingdom

By Albert Camus

By Albert Camus

By Albert Camus

By Albert Camus

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Feb 13, 2007 | 192 Pages

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    About Exile and the Kingdom

    From a variety of masterfully rendered perspectives, these six stories depict people at painful odds with the world around them. A wife can only surrender to a desert night by betraying her husband. An artist struggles to honor his own aspirations as well as society’s expectations of him. A missionary brutally converted to the worship of a tribal fetish is left with but an echo of his identity. Whether set in North Africa, Paris, or Brazil, the stories in Exile and the Kingdom are probing portraits of spiritual exile, and man’s perpetual search for an inner kingdom in which to be reborn. They display Camus at the height of his powers.

    Now, on the 50th anniversary of the book’s publication, Carol Cosman’s new translation recovers a literary treasure for our time.

    Albert Camus won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.

    About Exile and the Kingdom

    These six stories, written at the height of Camus’ artistic powers, all depict people at decisive, revelatory moments in their lives. Translated by Justin O’Brien.

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    Resistance, Rebellion, and Death
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    About Albert Camus

    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… More about Albert Camus

    About Albert Camus

    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… More about Albert Camus

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Collections | Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $15.00
    Published by Vintage
    Feb 13, 2007 | 192 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780307278586

    Category: Literary Collections | Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $12.99
    Published by Vintage
    Sep 19, 2012 | 192 Pages | ISBN 9780307827760

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    Praise

    “Thoroughly engrossing” —The New York Times“[These stories] invite comparison with his best work” —The Nation

    Awards

    Nobel Prize WINNER

    Table Of Contents

    Foreword
    Introduction

    The Adulterous Wife

    The Renegade, or A Confused Mind

    The Voiceless

    The Guest

    Jonas, of The Artist at Work

    The Growing Stone

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