Every year, one in four American adults suffers from a diagnosable mental health disorder. In these true stories, writers and their loved ones struggle as their worlds are upended. What do you do when your father kills himself, or your mother is committed
Camus and his writing are intimately bound up with his native Algeria. These three essays evoke different aspects of the place. The title essay, 'The Minotaur' and 'The Return to Tipasa' are extracted from Noces (1950) and L'été (1954).
From one of the most brilliant and influential thinkers of the twentieth century–two novels, six short stories, and a pair of essays in a single volume. In both his essays and his fiction, Albert Camus (1913—1960) de-ployed his lyric eloquence in defe
Paris is firing all its ammunition into the August night. Against a vast backdrop of water and stone, on both sides of a river awash with history, freedom's barricades are once again being erected. Once again justice must be redeemed with men's blood. ? A
In the speech he gave upon accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, Albert Camus said that a writer "cannot serve today those who make history; he must serve those who are subject to it." And in these twenty-three political essays, he demonstrate
"Here now, for the first time in a complete English translation, we have Camus's three little volumes of essays, plus a selection of his critical comments on literature and his own place in it. As might be expected, the main interest of these writings is
The musings and sketches of Albert Camus offer insight into the molding and working of a creative mind. Covering ground form young adulthood to the height of Camus's career, these notebooks contain sketches for future works, excerpts from favorite books,
This text consists of two notebooks that the Nobel laureate kept during a short trip to the U.S. in 1946 and during a longer stay in Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and Chile in 1949 periods of stress and hectic public appearances, when he was tired, nervous,
Ce recueil se compose de quatre essais écrits en 1936 et 1937, publiés en 1950.Noces à Tipasa évoque un «jour de noces avec le monde». Sur la plage de Tipasa, dans les odeurs sauvages de l'été d'Algérie, un jeune homme, fils d'une «race née du
