알베르 카뮈

이방인는 알베르 카뮈의 장편소설이다. 알제리에 사는 평범한 월급쟁이 뫼르소는 모친 장례일의 이튿날 해수욕장에 가고, 희극 영화를 보고 웃으며 여자친구와 더불어 밤을 지낸다. 다음 일요일에 친구인 레몽과 그의 정부 간의 분쟁에 휩쓸려 해안에서 정부의 복수를 하러 온 오빠의 패거리 중 한 명을 총으로 쏴 죽인다. 재판에 회부되어 범행동기를 물을 때 "모두가 태양 탓이다" 라고 대답하고, 사형이 언도된다. 독방에서 형의 집행을 기다리는 뫼르소는 사제가 권하는 속죄의 기도도 거절하고 자기는 과거에나 현재에나 행복하다고 느낀다. 모든 기성의 가치와 습관에 무관심하게 되어 …

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 …

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 …

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the …

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 …