In his first novel, A Happy Death, written when he was in his early twenties and retrieved from his private papers following his death in I960, Albert Camus laid the foundation for The Stranger, focusing in both works on an Algerian clerk who kills a man in cold blood. But he also revealed himself t[...]

Is it possible to die a happy death? This is the central question of Camus' astonishing early novel, published posthumously and greeted as a major literary event. It tells the story of a young Algerian, Mersault, who defies society's rules by committing a murder and escaping punishment, then experim[...]

V etu knigu voshli chetyre raboty Albera Kamju, napisannye v raznykh zhanrakh, odnako v ravnoj stepeni vazhnye dlja ponimanija ego kontseptsii ekzistentsializma, - povesti "Postoronnij" i "Padenie", filosofskoe esse "Mif o Sizife" i drama "Kaligula".Chto predstavljaet soboj istinnaja svoboda? Neset [...]