Resistance, Rebellion, and Death - Hardcover

Camus, Albert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394442792 ISBN 13: 9780394442792

Publisher: Knopf, 1961

Synopsis

In the last two years before his death Camus himself selected the pieces that make up this volume because they represented the sum total of his life.

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From the Back Cover:

Resistance, Rebellion, and Death bears witness to the passionately scrupulous sense of responsibility which made Camus the kind of man and the kind of writer he was." -- Christian Science Monitor

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." And in these twenty-three political essays, he demonstrates his commitment to history's victims, from the fallen maquis of the French Resistance to the casualties of the Cold War.

Resistance, Rebellion, and Death displays Camus's 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.

About the Author:

Born in Algeria in 1913, Albert Camus published The Stranger—now one of the most widely read novels of this century—in 1942. Celebrated in intellectual circles, Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. On January 4, 1960, he was killed in a car accident.

About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf
• Publication date: 1961
• ISBN 10: 0394442792
• ISBN 13: 9780394442792
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1