Camus, Albert , 1913-1960

The fall ; & exile and the kingdom / Albert Camus ; translated from the French by Justin O'Brien - New York : Vintage International , 1985 , c1957. - 213 p. : 21 cm

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.


Translated from the French to English

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