"Exile and the Kingdom" 1958 Camus, Albert

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CAMUS, Albert

[213] pp.

Alfred A. Knopf

1958

First American Edition

7 3/4" x 5 1/2"

Jacket design by Paul … Read more CAMUS, Albert

[213] pp.

Alfred A. Knopf

1958

First American Edition

7 3/4" x 5 1/2"

Jacket design by Paul Rand

Translated from the French by Justin O'Brien. His 6th book published in America. Six short stories published shortly after he received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.

From a variety of masterfully rendered perspectives, these six stories depict people at painful odds with the world around them. A wife can only surrender to a desert night by betraying her husband. An artist struggles to honor his own aspirations as well as society's expectations of him. A missionary brutally converted to the worship of a tribal fetish is left with but an echo of his identity. Whether set in North Africa, Paris, or Brazil, the stories in Exile and the Kingdom are probing portraits of spiritual exile, and man’s perpetual search for an inner kingdom in which to be reborn. They display Camus at the height of his powers. See less