Albert Camus

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 …

The Nobel prize-winning Albert Camus, who died in 1960, could not have known how grimly current his existentialist novel of epidemic and death would remain. Set in Algeria, in northern Africa, The Plague is a powerful study of human life and its meaning in the face of a deadly virus that sweeps dispassionately through …

Cudzinec je dielom francúzskeho spisovateľa Alberta Camusa. Napísal ju v roku 1942. Je príkladným dielom absurdnistickej fikcie. Dej sa odohráva v Alžírsku, je písaný v prvej osobe. Hlavnou postavou je skromný úradník Meursault. Témou je život tohto človeka, jeho zúfalstvo a nešťastie, cíti sa byť cudzincom v ľudskej …