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Mar 25, 2024 · Here is every Albert Brooks movie, ranked: 7. Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World (2005) If you’ll recall, things were pretty weird in the years following September 11, 2001. Hollywood, as ...
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- The Stranger. Meursault. I was immediately attracted to the title given to this book in the US, The Stranger. It spoke to me of mystery and intrigue and, being one of Albert Camus’ best rated books, I knew I should be in for a treat.
- The Plague. Epidemic. If you want something to relate to in your reading, then this is the book for you. Not for the squeamish, The Plague takes place in 1940’s Oran, a city in French Algeria.
- The Fall. Short but Sweet. Coming third on our Albert Camus book list, is The Fall, which is actually a novella. Consisting of less than 150 pages, The Fall is a philosophical and psychological study of the main character, Jean-Baptiste Clamence.
- The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays. Greek Mythology. Another of Albert Camus’ best ranked books consists of a collection of essays, including the titular piece, The Myth of Sisyphus, which I have decided to focus on.
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- The Stranger
- The Plague
- The Myth of Sisyphus
- The Fall
- The Rebel
- The First Man
- A Happy Death
- Exile and The Kingdom
- Resistance, Rebellion, and Death
The Stranger is certainly Camus’ best-known novel. It follows the absurdist sorry of the character Meursault, a strange and unhappy man living in Algeria. He moves through his life without purpose and then eventually commits a murder on a beach. The novel is seen as a leading work of the existentialist or the absurdist (a term Camus preferred) move...
‘The Plague’ explores a plague that takes place in Algiers, Oran. In order to write this story, Camus looked to an outbreak of cholera in 1849 as inspiration. He moved the events from the 1840s to the 1940s and brought in his own absurdist viewpoint. It focuses more on the crisis of the moment rather than the illness itself. Camus was interested in...
‘The Myth of Sisyphus’is Camus’ best-known essay. It was published in 1942 and outlines Camus’ beliefs about the absurd. Humans must, he wrote, continue to live knowing that there is nothing they can do to avoid their ultimate fate. Camus takes the legend of Sisyphus and uses it as a metaphor for the impossible fight humans have on their hands agai...
‘The Fall’ was Camus’ last complete fiction work. The story is set in Amsterdam and explores truth, existence, and imprisonment, all themes that can be found in several other stories and novels. It follows the story of Jean-Baptiste Clamence, a lawyer who delivers the story of his life. The book is made up of a series of monologues that explore his...
‘The Rebel’ is an essay on rebellion. Camus explores why people rebel and how the act of rebellion has changed in the modern world. The essay is quite long, resembling a book more than a story in length. In the end, he comes to the conclusion that people rebel because they are always seeking out meaning, or at least a meaning to their own lives. Th...
‘The First Man’ is an unfinished novel that Camus was working on when he died in January of 1960. It was going to be an autobiographical novel and was published by his daughter in 1994. The novel follows the main character, Jacques Cormery, through his youth and young adulthood. It stands apart from the rest of Camus’ works in its physicality and e...
‘A Happy Death’ was Camus’ first novel. It was written when he was in his early twins and was not published until after his tragic death in 1960. The topic of the novel is generally defined as the creation of one’s own happiness and how money and time relate to one’s ability to successfully become happy. In the novel, Camus looks back on his life. ...
‘Exile and the Kingdom’ is a collection of six stories that Camus published in 1957. The stories in the volume focus primarily on absurdism, an offshoot of existentialism. One of the best in the collection is ‘La pierre qui pousse’ or ‘The Growing Stone,’ which is often cited as the polar opposite of ‘The Stranger’. Other stories include ‘The Silen...
‘Resistance, Rebellion, and Death’ is a collection of essays that was published in 1960, the year of Camus’ death. The essays focus on conflict, specifically in regard to Algeria and the Algerian War of Independence. In ‘Reflections on the Guillotine’ he discusses the death penalty. One of the best-known parts of this collection is the ‘Create Dang...
Llibreria antiquària Casals fundada el 1986 per Albert Obradors Casals. Està especialitzada en llibres antics i de segona mà. Comprem biblioteques senceres i llibres antics. Fem taxacions, expertitzacions i investigació bibliogràfica. Libreria anticuaria Casals fundada en 1986 por Albert Obradors Casals.
Albert Obradors is a biologist and has developed his professional career in the field of assisted reproduction. The gynaecological knowledge of his father and the clinic’s Medical Director, Josep Obradors, has always been a driving force behind Albert Obradors when exploring the disciplines of Biology and Genetics and adapting all that accumulated experience into fertility and treatments for ...
