New Releases by Albert Camus

A Happy Death is an early philosophical novel by Albert Camus that explores the idea that true happiness can only be achieved through complete personal freedom. The story follows Patrice Mersault, a man trapped in an empty, conventional life, who comes to believe that happiness requires absolute control over one’s time and existence. Through a decisive and morally troubling act, he frees himself from social and economic constraints and sets out on a journey across Europe and North Africa. Along the way, he experiments with love, solitude, illness, and contemplation, searching for a life lived fully on his own terms. The novel introduces themes that would later define Camus’s philosophy: individual freedom, mortality, authenticity, and the rejection of imposed meaning. A Happy Death presents happiness not as pleasure or success, but as the courage to face death after having truly lived.

फ्रांस के अमर लेखक, नोबेल पुरस्कार-विजेता अल्बैर कामू मानव-अन्तर्मन के संवेगों और कुंठाओं को अनावृत करने में पटु हैं। नियति में उनका विश्वास है और कृत्य की स्वतंत्रता एक निर्दिष्ट परिधि में ही वह मानते हैं। आरम्भ से अन्त तक पाठक की रुचि को साधे रखनेवाले इस उपन्यास में नायक के समस्त क्रिया-कलाप और उसके साथ घटी घटनाओं में उनका यही जीवन-दर्शन व्यक्त हुआ है। विश्व के विशिष्ट उपन्यास-साहित्य में स्थान पानेवाले उपन्यास ‘अजनबी’ की कथा-वस्तु न केवल हमारे मर्म को मथ देने में सफल होती है, वरन् हमें जीवन और कर्म, और इन दोनों के उद्देश्यों के सम्बन्ध में भी सोचने पर विवश करती है। सन् 1942 में प्रकाशित इस उपन्यास को द्वितीय विश्वयुद्ध से उत्पन्न हताशा और विसंगतियों को अभिव्यक्त करनेवाली कृति माना जाता है। उपन्यास के नायक से कामू यहाँ जीवन की निरुद्देश्यता और मृत्यु की अनिवार्यता को रेखांकित करते हैं; नायक की समाज से विरक्ति और उदासीनता का जैसा मार्मिक चित्रण कामू ने इस उपन्यास में किया है, वह आज भी स्तब्ध कर देता है।

The Nobel Prize winner''s most influential and enduring personal writings, newly curated and introduced by acclaimed Camus scholar Alice Kaplan. Albert Camus (1913-1960) is unsurpassed among writers for a body of work that animates the wonder and absurdity of existence. Personal Writings brings together, for the first time, thematically-linked essays from across Camus''s writing career that reflect the scope and depth of his interior life. Grappling with an indifferent mother and an impoverished childhood in Algeria, an ever-present sense of exile, and an ongoing search for equilibrium, Camus''s personal essays shed new light on the emotional and experiential foundations of his philosophical thought and humanize his most celebrated works.

The Nobel Prize winner''s most influential and enduring political writings, newly curated and introduced by acclaimed Camus scholar Alice Kaplan. Albert Camus (1913-1960) is unsurpassed among writers for a body of work that animates the wonder and absurdity of existence. Committed Writings brings together, for the first time, thematically-linked essays from across Camus''s writing career that reflect the scope of his political thought. This pivotal collection embodies Camus''s radical and unwavering commitment to upholding human rights, resisting fascism, and creating art in the service of justice.

l se trouve dans Le Mythe de Sisyphe o� l''auteur fran�ais Albert Camus pr�sente sa philosophie de l''absurde: l''id�e que l''humanit� dans son ensemble est bloqu� dans une boucle perp�tuelle en vains efforts pour essayer de trouver un sens dans un monde absurde. Il illustre son point avec un personnage c�l�bre de la mythologie grecque: Sisyphe a �t� condamn� par les dieux � rouler un rocher jusqu''au sommet d''une montagne, seulement pour retomber � l''endroit o� le premier commenc� et r�p�ter le processus un nombre infini de fois. -De Goodread

The Fall is the third and last novel of this philosopher, published in 1956. Within his work can identify the existentialist line of his thinking, also reflects the philosophy of the absurd in the sense of approval and disenchantment with the affirmation Of positive and negative qualities in the dignity and fraternity of the human being. Camus considered the absurdity of the human condition as a tragic inability to comprehend and transcend in every situation that involves the subject, the same lineage is exposed in the description of a seemingly irrational world in which the individual seeks his sense of life as he is Protagonist of this novel.

The summation of the existentialist philosophy threaded throughout all his writing, Albert Camus'' The Myth of Sisyphus is translated by Justin O''Brien with an introduction by James Wood in Penguin Classics. In this profound and moving philosophical statement, Camus poses the fundamental question: is life worth living? If human existence holds no significance, what can keep us from suicide? As Camus argues, if there is no God to give meaning to our lives, humans must take on that purpose themselves. This is our ''absurd'' task, like Sisyphus forever rolling his rock up a hill, as the inevitability of death constantly overshadows us. Written during the bleakest days of the Second World War, The Myth of Sisyphus (Le Mythe de Sisyphe) argues for an acceptance of reality that encompasses revolt, passion and, above all, liberty. This volume contains several other essays, including lyrical evocations of the sunlit cities of Algiers and Oran, the settings of his great novels The Outsider and The Plague. Albert Camus (1913-60) is the author of a number of best-selling and highly influential works, all of which are published by Penguin. They include The Fall, The Outsider and The First Man. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, Camus is remembered as one of the few writers to have shaped the intellectual climate of post-war France, but beyond that, his fame has been international. If you enjoyed The Myth of Sisyphus, you might like Camus'' The Outsider, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. ''Camus could never cease to be one of the principal forces in our domain, nor to represent, in his own way, the history of France and of this century'' Jean-Paul Sartre

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • Twenty-three political essays that focus on the victims of history, from the fallen maquis of the French Resistance to the casualties of the Cold War. In the speech he gave upon accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, Albert Camus said that a writer "cannot serve today those who make history; he must serve those who are subject to it." Resistance, Rebellion and Death displays Camus'' rigorous moral intelligence addressing issues that range from colonial warfare in Algeria to the social cancer of capital punishment. But this stirring book is above all a reflection on the problem of freedom, and, as such, belongs in the same tradition as the works that gave Camus his reputation as the conscience of our century: The Stranger, The Rebel, and The Myth of Sisyphus.

One of the most influential works of this century, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought. Influenced by works such as Don Juan and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on suicide; the question of living or not living in a universe devoid of order or meaning. With lyric eloquence, Albert Camus brilliantly posits a way out of despair, reaffirming the value of personal existence, and the possibility of life lived with dignity and authenticity.

Edited by Philip Thody, translated by Ellen Conroy Kennedy. "Here now, for the first time in a complete English translation, we have Camus'' three little volumes of essays, plus a selection of his critical comments on literature and his own place in it. As might be expected, the main interest of these writings is that they illuminate new facets of his usual subject matter."--The New York Times Book Review "...a new single work for American readers that stands among the very finest."--The Nation

Set in North Africa, Paris, and Brazil, the six stories in this masterful collection reveal probing portraits of spiritual exile, and man’s perpetual search for an inner kingdom in which to be reborn. From a variety of masterfully rendered perspectives, these 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. They display Camus at the height of his powers. Now, on the 50th anniversary of the book’s publication, Carol Cosman’s new translation recovers a literary treasure for our time. Albert Camus won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.

NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR • One of the most widely read novels of all time—from one of the best-known writers of all time—about a lawyer from Paris who brilliantly illuminates the human condition. Elegantly styled, Camus'' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer''s confessions is a searing study of modern amorality.

The first novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author lays the foundation for The Stranger, telling the story of an Algerian clerk who kills a man in cold blood. In A Happy Death, written when Albert Camus was in his early twenties and retrieved from his private papers following his death in 1960, revealed himself to an extent that he never would in his later fiction. For if A Happy Death is the study of a rule-bound being shattering the fetters of his existence, it is also a remarkably candid portrait of its author as a young man. As the novel follows the protagonist, Patrice Mersault, to his victim''s house -- and then, fleeing, in a journey that takes him through stages of exile, hedonism, privation, and death -it gives us a glimpse into the imagination of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. For here is the young Camus himself, in love with the sea and sun, enraptured by women yet disdainful of romantic love, and already formulating the philosophy of action and moral responsibility that would make him central to the thought of our time. Translated from the French by Richard Howard

This final volume, recorded over the last nine years of his life, takes on the characteristics of a personal diary.--[book jacket].

‘कालिगुला’ रोमन साम्राज्य के निरंकुश तानाशाह की मर्मांतक कहानी है जो अपने मारे जाने के षड्यंत्रों के बीच भी ''निर्भय'' है। उसकी तानाशाही ने सदाचार को, ईमानदार आदमी को चाबुक पर नचाया है। उसे उन लोगों के चेहरों की मलिनता और गंध बड़ी निकृष्ट लगती है, जिन्होंने न दुःख भोगे न जोखिम उठाए, जो सद्गुणों की जैसे दुकान लगाते हैं, सुरक्षा का स्वप्न ऐसे देखते हैं जैसे कोई युवती प्रेम का। शायद ये इसी भय में अन्ततः मर भी जाएँगे बिना यह जाने कि उन्होंने जिन्दगी भर झूठ बोला है। ये लोग न्यायकर्ता कैसे हो सकते हैं? ऐसी तमाम बातें, तमाम चीजें बेबाकी से सोचनेवाले निरंकुश, क्रूर और अनिष्टकारी कालिगुला को सारी वर्जनाओं के बावजूद किसी महानायक की तरह स्थापित करती चली जाती हैं। कालिगुला की मुक्ति की छटपटाहट और मनुष्य के मनोभावों पर निरपेक्ष पकड़ से ही उसके लिए चाँद जरूरी हो जाता है। वह खुद से कहता है, ‘कालिगुला, तुम भी, तुम भी दंड के भागी हो। किसी से कुछ कम, किसी से कुछ ज्यादा लेकिन इस न्यायाधीशविहीन संसार में जहाँ कोई भी निर्दोष नहीं, कौन हिम्मत करेगा कि मुझे दोषी ठहराए?’

For the first time in English, "Camus at Combat" presents all of Camus'' World War II resistance and early postwar writings published in "Combat," the resistance newspaper where he served as editor-in-chief and editorial writer between 1944 and 1947.

In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company''s 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder Allen Lane''s vision of good books for all''. three essays evoke different aspects of the place - the title essay The Minotaur and The Return to Tipasa.

From one of the most brilliant and influential thinkers of the twentieth century and a Nobel Prize-winning author: two novels, six short stories, and a pair of essays in a single hardcover volume that deploy his lyric eloquence in defense against despair. In both his essays and his fiction, Albert Camus (1913–1960) provides an affirmation of the brave assertion of humanity in the face of a universe devoid of order or meaning. The Plague—written in 1947 and still profoundly relevant—is a riveting tale of horror, survival, and resilience in the face of a devastating epidemic. The Fall (1956), which takes the form of an astonishing confession by a French lawyer in a seedy Amsterdam bar, is a haunting parable of modern conscience in the face of evil. The six stories of Exile and the Kingdom (1957) represent Camus at the height of his narrative powers, masterfully depicting his characters—from a renegade missionary to an adulterous wife—at decisive moments of revelation. Set beside their fictional counterparts, Camus’s famous essays “The Myth of Sisyphus” and “Reflections on the Guillotine” are all the more powerful and philosophically daring, confirming his towering place in twentieth-century thought. With an introduction by David Bellos. Everyman''s Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author''s life and times.

In a series of highly publicized articles in 1952, Jean-Paul Sartre engaged Albert Camus in a bitter public confrontation over the ideas Camus articulated in his renowned work, . This volume contains English translations of the five texts constituting this famous philosophical quarrel. It also features a biographical and critical introduction plus two essays by contemporary scholars reflecting on the cultural and philosophical significance of this confrontation.

As a philosophy teacher, mentor, and friend, Jean Grenier (1898?1971) had an enormous influence on the young Albert Camus (1913?1960), who, in fact, acknowledged that Grenier?s Les Iles had touched the very core of his sensibility and provided him with both a ?terrain for reflection, and a format? that he would later use for his own essays. Their correspondence, beginning when the seventeen-year-old Camus was Grenier?s student at the Grand Lycäe of Algiers, documents the younger man?s struggle to become a writer and find his own voice, a period in which he turned frequently to his mentor for advice, comfort, and direction. The letters cover a period of almost thirty years, from 1932 to Camus?s untimely death in 1960. Because Camus destroyed the earlier correspondence he received, the first twenty-six letters in the volume are his only; the full begins in 1940. ø These enlightening letters offer invaluable glimpses into the development of Camus?s aesthetic ideas, literary production, and political stance. In contrast to the correspondence of Grenier, who throughout remains somewhat reticent about his life and doubtful about himself and his works, Camus?s letters are a window into his most profound thoughts and sensitivities, delving deeply into his psyche and, at times, revealing a side of the writer unfamiliar to us. Undoubtedly they allow us a better understanding of Albert Camus, the man and the artist.

By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution that resonates as an ardent, eloquent, and supremely rational voice of conscience for our tumultuous times. 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 uprisings against established orders throughout history. And yet, with an eye toward the French Revolution and its regicides and deicides, he shows how inevitably the course of revolution leads to tyranny. Translated from the French by Anthony Bower.

Youthful writings of Albert Camus including essays, verse, parables, and fairy tales.