The Rebel

Informationen zum Autor Albert Camus (1913-60) grew up in a working-class neighbourhood in Algiers. He studied philosophy at the University of Algiers, and became a journalist. His most important works include The Outsider , The Myth of Sisyphus, The Plague and The Fall . After the occupation of France by the Germans in 1941, Camus became one of the intellectual leaders of the Resistance movement. He was killed in a road accident, and his last unfinished novel, The First Man , appeared posthumously. Klappentext An essay on the nature of human revolt, this book makes a critique of communism, how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain, and the resulting totalitarian regimes. It also questions two events held sacred by the left wing, the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian Revolution of 1917. Zusammenfassung An essay on the nature of human revolt, this book makes a critique of communism, how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain, and the resulting totalitarian regimes. It also questions two events held sacred by the left wing, the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian Revolution of 1917.

Product details

• Authors: Anthony Bower, Albert Camus, Olivier Todd
• Assisted by: Olivier Todd (Introduction), Todd Olivier (Introduction), Anthony Bower (Translation), Bower Anthony (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.12.2000
• EAN: 9780141182018
• ISBN: 978-0-14-118201-8
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, HISTORY / Revolutionary, Revolutionary groups & movements, Literary essays, Political oppression & persecution, Political oppression and persecution, Revolutionary groups and movements