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The fall ; & exile and the kingdom / Albert Camus ; translated from the French by Justin O'Brien

By:

Camus, Albert, , 1913-1960

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Vintage International , 1985 , c1957.Description: 213 p. : 21 cmISBN:

9780679733850

Subject(s):

Short stories

DDC classification:

FIC CAM

Contents:

The Adulterous Wife, The Renegade, Or, A Confused Mind, The Voiceless, The Guest, Jonas, Or, The Artist at Work, The Growing Stone

Summary: Six stories depict people at painful odds with the world around them. A wife can only surrender to a desert night by betraying her husband. An artist struggles to honor his own aspirations as well as society's expectations of him. A missionary brutally converted to the worship of a tribal fetish is left with but an echo of his identity. Whether set in North Africa, Paris, or Brazil, the stories in Exile and the Kingdom are probing portraits of spiritual exile, and man's perpetual search for an inner kingdom in which to be reborn. They display Camus at the height of his powers.

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Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC CAM (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Checked out	Fiction	02/10/2024	008640

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The Adulterous Wife, The Renegade, Or, A Confused Mind, The Voiceless, The Guest, Jonas, Or, The Artist at Work, The Growing Stone

Six stories depict people at painful odds with the world around them. A wife can only surrender to a desert night by betraying her husband. An artist struggles to honor his own aspirations as well as society's expectations of him. A missionary brutally converted to the worship of a tribal fetish is left with but an echo of his identity. Whether set in North Africa, Paris, or Brazil, the stories in Exile and the Kingdom are probing portraits of spiritual exile, and man's perpetual search for an inner kingdom in which to be reborn. They display Camus at the height of his powers.

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