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Below, we select and introduce Albert Camus’ best books, and say a little bit about why each is worth reading. The Plague. This 1947 novel has its origins in a genuine outbreak of plague in Oran, Algeria in the 1940s.
Albert Camus was a French novelist, essayist, and playwright, best known for such novels as The Stranger (1942), The Plague (1947), and The Fall (1956) and for his work in leftist causes. He also wrote the influential philosophical essay The Myth of Sisyphus (1942). Camus received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.
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Works, such as the novels The Stranger (1942) and The Plague (1947), of Algerian-born French writer and philosopher Albert Camus concern the absurdity of the human condition; he won the Nobel Prize of 1957 for literature.
1 The Fall by Albert Camus. 2 The Plague by Albert Camus. 3 Notebooks 1935-1942: Volume 1 by Albert Camus. 4 Lyrical and Critical Essays by Albert Camus. 5 The Rebel by Albert Camus. B efore we get to the books you’ve chosen, how did you first get interested in Albert Camus? It’s a funny story, actually. Well, it would be funny if it weren’t true.
The first of Camus's novels published in his lifetime, the story follows Meursault, an indifferent settler in French Algeria, who, weeks after his mother's funeral, kills an unnamed Arab man in Algiers. The story is divided into two parts, presenting Meursault's first-person narrative before and after the killing. [1]
The Stranger. Albert Camus, Matthew Ward (Translator) 4.02. 1,109,370 ratings50,928 reviews. Published in 1942 by French author Albert Camus, The Stranger has long been considered a classic of twentieth-century literature. Le Monde ranks it as number one on its "100 Books of the Century" list.
