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Lyrical and Critical Essays

By Albert Camus

By Albert Camus

By Albert Camus

By Albert Camus

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Sep 12, 1970 | ISBN 9780394708522

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Oct 31, 2012 | ISBN 9780307827784

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    About Lyrical and Critical Essays

    “Here now, for the first time in a complete English translation, we have Camus’s three little volumes of essays, plus a selection of his critical comments on literature and his own place in it. As might be expected, the main interest of these writings is that they illuminate new facets of his usual subject matter.”—The New York Times Book Review
     
    “A new single work for American readers that stands among the very finest.”—The Nation

    About Lyrical and Critical Essays

    Edited by Philip Thody, translated by Ellen Conroy Kennedy. 

    “Here now, for the first time in a complete English translation, we have Camus’ three little volumes of essays, plus a selection of his critical comments on literature and his own place in it. As might be expected, the main interest of these writings is that they illuminate new facets of his usual subject matter.”–The New York Times Book Review

    “…a new single work for American readers that stands among the very finest.”–The Nation

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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. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957. On January 4, 1960, he was killed in a car… 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. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957. On January 4, 1960, he was killed in a car… More about Albert Camus

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Collections | Philosophy

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Vintage
    Sep 12, 1970 | 384 Pages | 4-5/16 x 7-1/4 | ISBN 9780394708522

    Category: Literary Collections | Philosophy

    Ebook | $10.99
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    Lyrical And Critical Essays

    "The literary output of Albert Camus was exceptionally concentrated and well organized, so that each part of it throws light on the other parts…. Here now, for the first time in a complete English translation, we have Camus’ three little volumes of essays, plus a selection of his critical comments on literature and on his own place in it. As might be expected, the main interest of these writings is that they illuminate new facets of his usual subject matter."

    — John Weightman, The New York Times Book Review

    "The work of Albert Camus began to achieve international recognition after World War II, and from then until his death in 1960 no author was a greater articulator of the general reevaluation of human action that took place in the best literature of this period… because those works are so intense, so occupied with the themes of a civilization, it is good to have small, sometimes rough pieces which show a great writer close to the stuff of experience he would later refine and set into parables for an age. For it was his ability to stay near the plain, uncelebrated habits of life that gave Camus’ art its peculiar strength and his thought its hard humanity."

    — Jack Richardson, Book World

    "Some of the pieces have been translated individually before, but several of the best have not, and the complete sequence forms what is in effect a new, single work for American readers that stands among his very finest."

    — Donald Lazere, The Nation

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