The Outsider is an enduring classic of existential writing by Albert Camus
'Mother died today.
Or maybe yesterday, I don't know'
Meursault is different. He will not lie. He will not pretend.
He is true to himself.
So when his mother dies and he is unmoved, he refuses to do the proper thing and grieve. Returning to Algiers after the funeral, he carries on life as usual until he becomes involved in a violent murder.
In court, it is clear that Meursault's guilt or innocence will not be determined by what he did or did not do.
He is on trial for being different - an outsider.
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Jean-Baptiste Clamence - refined, handsome, forty, a former successful lawyer - is in turmoil. Over several drunken nights he regales a chance acquaintance with his story. He talks of parties and his debauchery, of Parisian nights and the Aegean sea, and, ultimately, of his self-loathing. One of Albert Camus' most famous works, The Fall is a brilliant, complex portrayal of lost innocence and the true face of man.
Metaforyczny obraz świata walczącego ze złem, którego symbolem jest tytułowa dżuma, pustosząca Oran w 194... roku. Wybuch epidemii wywołuje różne reakcje u mieszkańców, jednak stopniowo uznają słuszność postępowania doktora Rieux, który od początku aktywnie walczy z zarazą, uznając to za swój obowiązek jako człowieka i lekarza.
Niepokojąca i wciąż aktualna powieść Alberta Camusa.Prezentujemy ją w nowym znakomitym przekładzie Anny Wasilewskiej.Jean-Baptiste Clamence niegdyś paryski adwokat o nienagannym wizerunku, którego pasją było czynienie dobra. Do czasu, gdy zobaczył prawdziwe oblicze świata i ludzi, swoje prawdziwe oblicze. Odtąd rozpaczliwie poszukuje prawdziwego życia, jednak droga jest wyboista.
Adaring critique of communism and how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain, Camus' essay 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.
„Wygnanie i królestwo” to ostatnia książka Alberta Camusa wydana za życia autora. Składa się na nią sześć opowiadań, a tytułowe „Wygnanie” i „Królestwo” opisuje egzystencjalną sytuację bohaterów. Duchowe wygnanie i poszukiwanie wewnętrznego królestwa, w którym człowiek mógłby się odrodzić. Oto Francuzka uwodzona przez odmienność Afryki, okaleczony renegat bliski szaleństwa w obliczu bestialstwa swojego narodu, malarz zagubiony w hipokryzji świata sztuki. Camus planował włączyć do tego tomu „Upadek”, ale ostatecznie opublikował go rok wcześniej, zapewniając mu autonomię. Dziw bierze, że niemal w tym samym czasie pisał tak odmienne stylistycznie utwory. Pierwsza polska edycja tego tomu w tłumaczeniu Joanny Guze ukazała się nakładem PIW-u w roku 1958. Dziś prezentujemy nowy przekład, którego autorką jest Anna Wasilewska.
'On the morning of April 16, Dr Rieux emerged from his consulting-room and came across a dead rat in the middle of the landing.'
It starts with the rats. Vomiting blood, they die in their hundreds, then in their thousands. When the rats are all gone, the citizens begin to fall sick. Like the rats, they too die in ever greater numbers.
The authorities quarantine the town. Cut off, the terrified townspeople must face this horror alone. Some resign themselves to death or the whims of fate. Others seek someone to blame or dream of revenge. One is determined to escape.
But a few, like stoic Dr Rieux, stand together to fight the terror. A monstrous evil has entered their lives, but they will never surrender to it.
They will resist the plague.
Is it possible to die a happy death?This is the central question of Camus's astonishing early novel, published posthumously and greeted as a major literary event. It tells the story of a young Algerian, Mersault, who defies society's rules by committing a murder and escaping punishment, then experimenting with different ways of life and finally dying a happy man. In many ways A Happy Death is a fascinating first sketch for The Outsider, but it can also be seen as a candid self-portrait, drawing on Camus's memories of his youth, travels and early relationships. It is infused with lyrical descriptions of the sun-drenched Algiers of his childhood - the place where, eventually, Mersault is able to find peace and die 'without anger, without hatred, without regret'.
A philosophical exploration of the idea of 'rebellion' by one of the leading existentialist thinkers, Albert Camus' The Rebel looks at artistic and political rebels throughout history, from Epicurus to the Marquis de Sade. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is translated by Anthony Bower with an introduction by Oliver Todd.
The Rebel is Camus' 'attempt to understand the time I live in' and a brilliant essay on the nature of human revolt. Published in 1951, it makes a daring critique of communism - how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain and the resulting totalitarian regimes. It questions two events held sacred by the left wing - the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian Revolution of 1917 - that had resulted, he believed, in terrorism as a political instrument. In this towering intellectual document, Camus argues that hope for the future lies in revolt, which unlike revolution is a spontaneous response to injustice and a chance to achieve change without giving up collective and intellectual freedom.
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.
A new collection of Albert Camus' most brilliant speeches and lectures
'Freedom is dangerous, as hard to live as it is exalting...'
This definitive new collection of Albert Camus' public speeches and lectures gives a compelling insight into one of the twentieth century's most enduring writers. From a pre-war speech on the politics of the Mediterranean - delivered when he was just twenty-two - to his impassioned Nobel Prize acceptance lectures and several pieces appearing in English for the first time, Speaking Out shows Camus' clarity and subtlety of thought, his 'stubborn humanism' and his unerring commitment to freedom and justice.
Obcy przyniósł Albertowi Camusowi popularność. Stał się bestselerem, czego Camus chyba nie do końca rozumiał, nie chciał być autorem wyłącznie Obcego. Chciał nie chciał, w roku 1940 dał światu zwierciadło, w którym może przejrzeć się człowiek. To jedna z książek (nie tylko francuskich czy dwudziestowiecznych, ale książek w ogóle), które są w ciągłym obiegu czytelniczym, to znaczy są nieustannie czytane, przemyśliwane, interpretowane. Wciąż aktualne, niepokojące. Domagające się kolejnych edycji, kolejnych przekładów.Bohater zagadka, Meursault, który imię zawdzięcza czy to znanemu burgundowi, czy skażonemu burgundzkim u mariażowi słońca i morza, z których się zrodził, z którymi się stapia, które przynoszą mu szczęście i zadają cierpienie. I powieść o byciu obcym, o człowieku uciskanym przez społeczeństwo, rzecz o miłości, o zgubnym wpływie słońca. I wielu innych sprawach.Najwyższy czas na książkową premierę nowego polskiego przekładu, po raz pierwszy prezentowanego na łamach Literatury na Świecie, który wyszedł spod pióra Marka Bieńczyka.
Metaforyczny obraz świata walczącego ze złem, którego symbolem jest tytułowa dżuma, pustosząca Oran w 194? roku. Wybuch epidemii wywołuje różne reakcje u mieszkańców, jednak stopniowo uznają słuszność postępowania doktora Rieux, który od początku aktywnie walczy z zarazą, uznając to za swój obowiązek jako człowieka i lekarza.
'A story for our, and all, times' Guardian
The Plague is Albert Camus's world-renowned fable of fear and courage
The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way to the lethal disease: some resign themselves to fate, some seek blame, and a few, like Dr Rieux, resist the terror.
An immediate triumph when it was published in 1947, The Plague is in part an allegory of France's suffering under the Nazi occupation, and a story of bravery and determination against the precariousness of human existence.
'A matchless fable of fear, courage and cowardice' Independent
'Magnificent' The Times
'One of those books that marks a reader's life indelibly' William Boyd
'A compelling, dreamlike fable' Guardian
In The Outsider, Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to social norms. Meursault, his anti-hero, will not lie. When his mother dies, he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others. And when he commits a random act of violence on a sun-drenched beach near Algiers, his lack of remorse compounds his guilt in the eyes of society and the law. Yet he is as much a victim as a criminal.
'An irresistibly brilliant examination of modern conscience' The New York Times
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 ...
'Camus is the accused, his own prosecutor and advocate. The Fall might have been called "The Last Judgement" '
Olivier Todd
Jedna z najbardziej cenionych powieści XX wieku to nie tylko szkic miasta w czasie wielkiego zagrożenia, to przede wszystkim studium postaci stojących w obliczu Zła. Dżuma, która niezauważalnie wkrada się w bramy Oranu zmienia dotychczasowy porządek rzeczy. Strach, cierpienie, odizolowanie, nieustanna walka z chorobą ukazuje bohaterstwo i determinację niektórych, ale i nikczemność, przebiegłość innych. Paraboliczna kronika odarta ze zbędnego patosu, będąca manifestem humanizmu to ponadczasowa historia ludzkiej solidarności i moralności.
Czyta Adam Ferency
On the morning of April 16, Dr Rieux emerged from his consulting-room and came across a dead rat in the middle of the landing.'
It starts with the rats. Vomiting blood, they die in their hundreds, then in their thousands. When the rats are all gone, the citizens begin to fall sick. Like the rats, they too die in ever greater numbers.
The authorities quarantine the town. Cut off, the terrified townspeople must face this horror alone. Some resign themselves to death or the whims of fate. Others seek someone to blame or dream of revenge. One is determined to escape.
But a few, like stoic Dr Rieux, stand together to fight the terror. A monstrous evil has entered their lives but they will never surrender to it.
They will resist the plague.
The summation of the existentialist philosophy threaded throughout all his writing, Albert Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus is translated by Justin O'Brien with an introduction by James Wood in Penguin Classics.
In this profound and moving philosophical statement, Camus poses the fundamental question: is life worth living? If human existence holds no significance, what can keep us from suicide? As Camus argues, if there is no God to give meaning to our lives, humans must take on that purpose themselves. This is our 'absurd' task, like Sisyphus forever rolling his rock up a hill, as the inevitability of death constantly overshadows us. Written during the bleakest days of the Second World War, The Myth of Sisyphus (Le Mythe de Sisyphe) argues for an acceptance of reality that encompasses revolt, passion and, above all, liberty.
This volume contains several other essays, including lyrical evocations of the sunlit cities of Algiers and Oran, the settings of his great novels The Outsider and The Plague.
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.
Powieść fracuskiego noblisty Alberta Camus. Opowiada o epidemii dżumy w algierskim mieście Oran. Tematem powieści jest dżuma jako choroba i jako zło drzemiące w człowieku.
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