Resistance, Rebellion, and Death

By: Albert Camus

In the last two years before his death Camus himself selected the pieces that make up this volume because they represented the sum total of his life. The book stands as a record of the experiences that nourished all of Camus's great work - a record not only of those exterior events in which he was involved, but of his growing interior vision. In this sense it is a chronology of faith, from his early years in the Resistance to his declaration of the role of the writer in human affairs. Between the youthful letters he wrote to a German friend, and his stirring condemnation of the horror of capital punishment, one finds here his clearly defined, eloquent and impassioned statement of beliefs on every major issue of our day. Again and again throughout his too-short life, Camus spoke out wherever the issue was human freedom against ignorance - for the fighters against tyranny in Spain and Hungary - as a bulwark of reason in the conflict in his native Algeria.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B000PZQPIQ
• Release Date: January 1961
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 272 Pages
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.7" x 7.1"