Books by Albert Camus

"Mir wurde klar, dass ich das Gleichgewicht des Tages zerstört hatte, die außergewöhnliche Stille eines Strandes, an dem ich glücklich gewesen war. Da habe ich noch viermal auf einen leblosen Körper geschossen, in den die Kugeln eindrangen, ohne dass man es ihm ansah. Und es war wie vier kurze Schläge, mit denen ich an das Tor des Unglücks hämmerte."Die Geschichte eines jungen Franzosen in Algerien, den ein lächerlicher Zufall zum Mörder macht, wurde 1942 im besetzten Frankreich zu einer literarischen Sensation. Der Roman bedeutete den schriftstellerischen Durchbruch für Albert Camus und gilt heute als einer der Haupttexte des Existenzialismus.Ulrich Matthes, geboren in Berlin, ist Theater- und Filmschauspieler. Er brillierte u. a. in als Dr.Joseph Goebbels in "Der Untergang". Matthes ist einer der beliebtesten deutschen Hörbuchsprecher. Für seine Interpretation von Vladimir Nabokovs "Pnin" erhielt er den Deutschen Hörbuchpreis.Albert Camus wurde am 7. November 1913 als Sohn einer Spanierin und eines Elsässers in Mondovi, Algerien, geboren. Er studierte an der Universität Algier Philosophie, 1935 trat er der Kommunistischen Partei Algeriens bei und gründete im Jahr darauf das "Theater der Arbeit". 1937 brach er mit der KP. 1938 entstand sein erstes Drama, Caligula, das 1945 uraufgeführt wurde, 1947 sein Roman "Die Pest". Neben seinen Dramen begründeten der Roman "Der Fremde" und der Essay "Der Mythos des Sisyphos" sein literarisches Ansehen. 1957 erhielt Albert Camus den Nobelpreis für Literatur. Am 4. Januar 1960 starb er bei einem Autounfall.

Noveller om konflikten mellem menneskers individualitet og kravet om solidaritet og fællesskab med andre.

En enestående skildring af en drengs opvækst i en fattig fransk familie i Algier, og en ufuldendt roman, der smukt og varmt fuldender et stort forfatterskab.

It starts with one dead rat; it ends with an entire city engulfed by catastrophe. The Plague is Albert Camus' electrifying story of living through a time of crisis and fighting back against despair.

Presents a critique of communism and how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain. This work examines the revolutions in France and Russia, and argues that since they were both guilty of producing tyranny and corruption, hope for the future lies only in revolt without revolution.

Presents Albert Camus' WWII resistance and early postwar writings published in Combat, the resistance newspaper where he served as editor-in-chief and editorial writer. These writing depict issues ranging from the liberation, deportation, justice for collaborators, the return of POWs, to the postwar role of international institutions.

The unfinished manuscript of The First Man was discovered in the wreckage of car accident in which Camus died in 1960. Although it was not published for over thirty years, it was an instant bestseller when it finally appeared in 1994. The 'first man' is Jacques Cormery, whose poverty-stricken childhood in Algiers is made bearable by his love for his silent and illiterate mother, and by the teacher who transforms his view of the world. The most autobiographical of Camus's novels, it gives profound insights into his life and the powerful themes underlying his work.

A philosophical novel described by fellow existentialist Sartre as 'perhaps the most beautiful and the least understood' of his novels, Albert Camus' The Fall is translated by Robin Buss in Penguin Modern Classics.Jean-Baptiste Clamence is a soul in turmoil. Over several drunken nights in an Amsterdam bar, he regales a chance acquaintance with his story. From this successful former lawyer and seemingly model citizen a compelling, self-loathing catalogue of guilt, hypocrisy and alienation pours forth. The Fall (1956) is a brilliant portrayal of a man who has glimpsed the hollowness of his existence. But beyond depicting one man's disillusionment, Camus's novel exposes the universal human condition and its absurdities - for our innocence that, once lost, can never be recaptured ...Albert Camus (1913-60) is the author of a number of best-selling and highly influential works, all of which are published by Penguin. They include The Fall, The Outsider and The First Man. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, Camus is remembered as one of the few writers to have shaped the intellectual climate of post-war France, but beyond that, his fame has been international.If you enjoyed The Fall, you might like Jean-Paul Sartre's Nausea, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.'An irresistibly brilliant examination of modern conscience'The New York Times'Camus is the accused, his own prosecutor and advocate. The Fall might have been called "e;The Last Judgement"e; 'Olivier Todd

Once overshadowed by Sartre, Camus has proved the more durable of the two most celebrated French writer-philosophers of the last century. This collection of his work makes the reasons for his survival self-evident. In prose of bleak but piercing clarity, Camus cuts to the heart of each story he tells. After The Outsider (also published in Everyman) The Plague is his most powerful novel, at once an account of heroic attempts to contain an epidemic in Algeria and a parable of the human condition. In The Fall a once-successful Parisian lawyer tells his own tale of decline and self-discovery, Exile and the Kingdom collect together a number of short stories which explore the existentialist predicament from various viewpoints. This volume also contains two important essays - The Myth of Sisyphus and Reflections on the Guillotine - which reflect on the themes developed in the fiction.