アルベール・カミュ

『異邦人』は、アルベール・カミュの小説。1942年刊。人間社会に存在する不条理について書かれている。カミュの代表作の一つとして数えられる。カミュが46歳の若さでノーベル文学賞を受賞したのは、この作品によるところが大きいと言われる。 …

『ペスト』は、アルベール・カミュが書いたフランスの小説。出版は1947年。ペストに襲われたアルジェリアのオラン市を舞台に、苦境の中、団結する民衆たちを描き、無慈悲な運命と人間との関係性が問題提起される。医者、市民、よそ者、逃亡者と、登場人物たちはさまざまだが、全員が民衆を襲うペストの脅威に、助けあいながら立ち向かう。 …

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 …

『シーシュポスの神話』は、アルベール・カミュの随筆。出版社によっては『シシュポスの神話』とも表記される。 …

By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution. For Albert Camus, the urge to revolt is one of the "essential dimensions" of human nature, manifested in man's timeless Promethean struggle against the conditions of his existence, as well as the popular …

The First Man is Albert Camus' unfinished final novel. On January 4, 1960, at the age of forty-six, Camus was killed in a car accident in the Luberon area in southern France. The incomplete manuscript of The First Man, the autobiographical novel Camus was working on at the time of his death, was found in the mud at …

Resistance, Rebellion, and Death is a 1960 collection of essays written by Albert Camus and selected by the author prior to his death. The essays here generally involve conflicts near the Mediterranean, with an emphasis on his home country Algeria, and on the Algerian War of Independence in particular. He also …

The Just Assassins is a 1949 play by French writer and philosopher Albert Camus. The play is based on the true story of a group of Russian Socialist-Revolutionaries who assassinated the Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich in 1905, and explores the moral issues associated with murder and terrorism. In the play, all but one …