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Author
Albert Camus
1913–1960
Albert Camus was born in Algeria in 1913 and died in France in 1960, in a car accident. He grew up in a poor neighbourhood of Algiers, and the Mediterranean light and simple life of that childhood run through all his work.
In 1942 he published two books that read like two sides of the same question. The Stranger tells the story of Meursault, a man who refuses to pretend to feel what he does not. The Myth of Sisyphus, an essay, asks whether life is worth living when it has no meaning given in advance, and answers that it is. The Plague, from 1947, describes an epidemic in the city of Oran and the different ways people choose to face it.
In 1957 he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. His books are short, clear and demanding: they invite you to think while still looking the world straight in the eye.
Their books in our catalogue
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The Myth of SisyphusAlbert Camus
The Myth of SisyphusAlbert Camus
The Myth of Sisyphus
Albert Camus
Camus opens with the hardest question there is, whether life is worth living, and refuses the easy comforts. Drawing on novelists, philosophers and the mythical king bound to his boulder, he shapes his notion of the absurd and a clear-eyed way of revolting against it. Short, dense and unexpectedly bright, it is a book to read slowly and carry with you.
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The StrangerAlbert Camus
The StrangerAlbert Camus
The Stranger
Albert Camus
In French Algeria, Meursault drifts through his days with an unsettling calm, untouched by the feelings everyone expects him to show. One sudden act under the Mediterranean sun sets him against a society that demands reasons. A short, spare and sun-bleached novel that turns indifference into a lasting question about what life means.
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The PlagueAlbert Camus
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The Plague
Albert Camus
When an epidemic strikes the Algerian city of Oran, the gates close and its people are left alone with the disease and with one another. Through a doctor and a varied cast of citizens, Camus writes in a restrained, almost chronicle-like voice that turns a city under quarantine into a meditation on solidarity and the absurd. It is a measured, quietly gripping read that lingers long after the last page.
