4.1
La peste (French Edition)
by Camus
Product Description La peste es una novela del escritor francés Albert Camus (1913-1960). Publicada en el 10 de junio de 1947, cuenta la historia de unos doctores que descubren el sentido de la solidaridad en su labor humanitaria en la ciudad argelina de Orán, mientras esta es azotada por una plaga. Los personajes del libro, en un amplio abanico que va desde médicos a turistas o fugitivos, contribuyen a mostrar los efectos que una plaga puede tener en una determinada población. Se piensa que la obra está basada en la epidemia de cólera que sufrió la misma ciudad de Orán durante 1849 tras la colonización francesa, a pesar de estar ambientada en el siglo XX. La población de Orán había sido diezmada por varias epidemias repetidas veces antes de publicar Camus la novela. Obra fundamental de la literatura del siglo XX, es considerada un clásico del existencialismo, a pesar del rechazo de Camus a esta etiqueta. La peste muestra cómo el hombre se enfrenta al absurdo, noción filosófica cuya teoría el propio autor contribuye con esta misma novela a definir. About the Author Albert Camuswas born in Algeria in 1913. During World War II, he joined the Resistance movement in Paris, then became editor-in-chief of the newspaper Combat during the Liberation. A novelist, playwright, and essayist, he is most famous for his novels The Stranger and The Plague. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.
Literature & FictionContemporary
RELEASED1996
PUBLISHERBertrand Lacoste
LENGTH124
LANGUAGEFR
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…"
4.1
La peste (French Edition)
by Camus
Product Description La peste es una novela del escritor francés Albert Camus (1913-1960). Publicada en el 10 de junio de 1947, cuenta la historia de unos doctores que descubren el sentido de la solidaridad en su labor humanitaria en la ciudad argelina de Orán, mientras esta es azotada por una plaga. Los personajes del libro, en un amplio abanico que va desde médicos a turistas o fugitivos, contribuyen a mostrar los efectos que una plaga puede tener en una determinada población. Se piensa que la obra está basada en la epidemia de cólera que sufrió la misma ciudad de Orán durante 1849 tras la colonización francesa, a pesar de estar ambientada en el siglo XX. La población de Orán había sido diezmada por varias epidemias repetidas veces antes de publicar Camus la novela. Obra fundamental de la literatura del siglo XX, es considerada un clásico del existencialismo, a pesar del rechazo de Camus a esta etiqueta. La peste muestra cómo el hombre se enfrenta al absurdo, noción filosófica cuya teoría el propio autor contribuye con esta misma novela a definir. About the Author Albert Camuswas born in Algeria in 1913. During World War II, he joined the Resistance movement in Paris, then became editor-in-chief of the newspaper Combat during the Liberation. A novelist, playwright, and essayist, he is most famous for his novels The Stranger and The Plague. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.
Literature & FictionContemporary
RELEASED1996
PUBLISHERBertrand Lacoste
LENGTH124
LANGUAGEFR
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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