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The Fall ; And, The Outsider
by Albert Camus
THE FALL
The hero of The Fall"once a successful Parisian lawyer noted for his modesty and kindly thoughtfulness for the poor and the defeated, at heart despises all but himself. After two insignificant experiences he sets about to reveal his true self to all which soon brings about his calamitous descent to disgrace.
THE OUTSIDER
The Outsider is the story of a young man who, apparently lacking in fundamental emotions, is not only outside the ordinary human framework but is living on the outside instead of the inside of experience. Like a summer insect he skims on the surface of life, until tragedy befalls him.
The hero of The Fall"once a successful Parisian lawyer noted for his modesty and kindly thoughtfulness for the poor and the defeated, at heart despises all but himself. After two insignificant experiences he sets about to reveal his true self to all which soon brings about his calamitous descent to disgrace.
THE OUTSIDER
The Outsider is the story of a young man who, apparently lacking in fundamental emotions, is not only outside the ordinary human framework but is living on the outside instead of the inside of experience. Like a summer insect he skims on the surface of life, until tragedy befalls him.
French fiction
RELEASED1946
PUBLISHERLythway Press
LENGTH306
LANGUAGEEN
Albert Camus was a French Algerian author, philosopher, and journalist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. He was a key philosopher of the 20th-century and his most famous work is the novel *L'Étranger* (*The Stranger*). In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement, which was a group opposed to some tendencies of the surrealistic movement of André Breton. Camus was the second-youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature - after Rudyard Kipling - when he became the first African-born writer to receive the award. He is the shortest-lived of any literature laureate to date, having died in an automobile accident just over two years after receiving the award. He is often cited as a proponent of existentialism, the philosophy that he was associated with during his own lifetime, but Camus himself rejected this particular label. In an interview in 1945, Camus rejected any ideological associations: "No, I am not an existentialist. Sartre and I are always surprised to see our names linked…"
4.0
The Fall ; And, The Outsider
by Albert Camus
THE FALL
The hero of The Fall"once a successful Parisian lawyer noted for his modesty and kindly thoughtfulness for the poor and the defeated, at heart despises all but himself. After two insignificant experiences he sets about to reveal his true self to all which soon brings about his calamitous descent to disgrace.
THE OUTSIDER
The Outsider is the story of a young man who, apparently lacking in fundamental emotions, is not only outside the ordinary human framework but is living on the outside instead of the inside of experience. Like a summer insect he skims on the surface of life, until tragedy befalls him.
The hero of The Fall"once a successful Parisian lawyer noted for his modesty and kindly thoughtfulness for the poor and the defeated, at heart despises all but himself. After two insignificant experiences he sets about to reveal his true self to all which soon brings about his calamitous descent to disgrace.
THE OUTSIDER
The Outsider is the story of a young man who, apparently lacking in fundamental emotions, is not only outside the ordinary human framework but is living on the outside instead of the inside of experience. Like a summer insect he skims on the surface of life, until tragedy befalls him.
French fiction
RELEASED1946
PUBLISHERLythway Press
LENGTH306
LANGUAGEEN
Albert Camus was a French Algerian author, philosopher, and journalist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. He was a key philosopher of the 20th-century and his most famous work is the novel *L'Étranger* (*The Stranger*). In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement, which was a group opposed to some tendencies of the surrealistic movement of André Breton. Camus was the second-youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature - after Rudyard Kipling - when he became the first African-born writer to receive the award. He is the shortest-lived of any literature laureate to date, having died in an automobile accident just over two years after receiving the award. He is often cited as a proponent of existentialism, the philosophy that he was associated with during his own lifetime, but Camus himself rejected this particular label. In an interview in 1945, Camus rejected any ideological associations: "No, I am not an existentialist. Sartre and I are always surprised to see our names linked…"
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