Notebooks 1935 - 1942 by Albert Camus
First edition
From 1935 until his death, Albert Camus kept a series of notebooks. A spiritual and intellectual auto biography, Camus' Notebooks are invariably more concerned with what he felt than with what he did. Rare books and signed books on shop books.
Notebooks 1935 - 1942 by Albert Camus
Format: First trade paperback edition
Condition: Very good plus, light edge and corner wear, price sticker on rear cover. Softcover.
Product dimensions: n/a
Publishing Info: Paragon, New York, 1991
Language: English
ISBN - 13: 9781557784124
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From 1935 until his death, Albert Camus kept a series of notebooks to sketch out ideas for future works, record snatches of conversations and excerpts from books he was reading, and jot down his reflections on death and the horror of war, his feelings about women and loneliness and art, and his appreciations for the Algerian sun and sea.
A spiritual and intellectual auto biography, Camus' Notebooks are invariably more concerned with what he felt than with what he did. It is intriguing for the reader to watch him seize and develop certain themes and ideas, discard others that at first seemed promising, and explore different types of experience.
Although the Notebooks may have served Camus as a practice ground, the prose is of superior quality, which makes a short spontaneous vignette or a moment of sensuous beauty quickly captured on the page a small work of art. Here is a record of one of the most unusual minds of our time.
About the Author:
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Camus' wikipedia entry
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