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젊은 시절의 글
1987년 <결혼.여름>을 시작으로, 스무해 동안 꾸준히 발간되어온 '알베르 카뮈 전집'의 열아홉 번째 권이 나왔다. 1931년에서 1934년 사이, 열여덟에서 스물한 살 시기의 문학청년 카뮈가 학생 공책 등에 남겨놓은 열아홉 편의 짧은 글을 엮은 것이다. 김화영 교수의 번역으로 국내에 처음 소개된다.
문단에 나오기 전, 다소 서투르고 불안한 목소리로 자아와 세계를 탐색하는 청년 카뮈의 빛나는 감성과 문학, 사상의 원형을 엿볼 수 있다. 다른 곳에서 접하기 어려운 시 작품, 문학적·철학적 비평의 성격을 띠는 에세이, 음악과 예술에 대한 사유, 독서 노트, 죽음과 신의 문제를 다룬 글이 담겨 있다.
'독서 노트'는 스탕달, 아이스킬로스, 지드, 프루스트, 니체, 도스토옙스키 등에 대한 카뮈의 열광적 관심을 담고 있다. 최초의 창조적 작품이라고 할 수 있는 '무어인의 집'에서는 외부 세계와 내면의 상호 조응을 통해 서투른 방식으로나마 자신만의 문체를 찾고자 노력하는 카뮈의 고투를 읽을 수 있다. 일부분만 남은 짧은 글인 '용기'는 훗날 <안과 겉>에 수록된 에세이 '아이러니'의 초고 일부이다.
문단에 나오기 전, 다소 서투르고 불안한 목소리로 자아와 세계를 탐색하는 청년 카뮈의 빛나는 감성과 문학, 사상의 원형을 엿볼 수 있다. 다른 곳에서 접하기 어려운 시 작품, 문학적·철학적 비평의 성격을 띠는 에세이, 음악과 예술에 대한 사유, 독서 노트, 죽음과 신의 문제를 다룬 글이 담겨 있다.
'독서 노트'는 스탕달, 아이스킬로스, 지드, 프루스트, 니체, 도스토옙스키 등에 대한 카뮈의 열광적 관심을 담고 있다. 최초의 창조적 작품이라고 할 수 있는 '무어인의 집'에서는 외부 세계와 내면의 상호 조응을 통해 서투른 방식으로나마 자신만의 문체를 찾고자 노력하는 카뮈의 고투를 읽을 수 있다. 일부분만 남은 짧은 글인 '용기'는 훗날 <안과 겉>에 수록된 에세이 '아이러니'의 초고 일부이다.
289 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1967
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About the author
Albert Camus
1,075 books38k followersWorks, such as the novels
The Stranger
(1942) and
The Plague
(1947), of Algerian-born French writer and philosopher Albert Camus concern the absurdity of the human condition; he won the Nobel Prize of 1957 for literature.
Origin and his experiences of this representative of non-metropolitan literature in the 1930s dominated influences in his thought and work.
He also adapted plays of Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Lope de Vega, Dino Buzzati, and Requiem for a Nun of William Faulkner. One may trace his enjoyment of the theater back to his membership in l'Equipe, an Algerian group, whose "collective creation" Révolte dans les Asturies (1934) was banned for political reasons.
Of semi-proletarian parents, early attached to intellectual circles of strongly revolutionary tendencies, with a deep interest, he came at the age of 25 years in 1938; only chance prevented him from pursuing a university career in that field. The man and the times met: Camus joined the resistance movement during the occupation and after the liberation served as a columnist for the newspaper Combat.
The essay Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus), 1942, expounds notion of acceptance of the absurd of Camus with "the total absence of hope, which has nothing to do with despair, a continual refusal, which must not be confused with renouncement - and a conscious dissatisfaction."
Meursault, central character of L'Étranger (The Stranger), 1942, illustrates much of this essay: man as the nauseated victim of the absurd orthodoxy of habit, later - when the young killer faces execution - tempted by despair, hope, and salvation.
Besides his fiction and essays, Camus very actively produced plays in the theater (e.g., Caligula, 1944).
The time demanded his response, chiefly in his activities, but in 1947, Camus retired from political journalism.
Doctor Rieux of La Peste (The Plague), 1947, who tirelessly attends the plague-stricken citizens of Oran, enacts the revolt against a world of the absurd and of injustice, and confirms words: "We refuse to despair of mankind. Without having the unreasonable ambition to save men, we still want to serve them."
People also well know La Chute (The Fall), work of Camus in 1956.
Camus authored L'Exil et le royaume (Exile and the Kingdom) in 1957. His austere search for moral order found its aesthetic correlative in the classicism of his art. He styled of great purity, intense concentration, and rationality.
Camus died at the age of 46 years in a car accident near Sens in le Grand Fossard in the small town of Villeblevin.
Chinese 阿尔贝·加缪
Origin and his experiences of this representative of non-metropolitan literature in the 1930s dominated influences in his thought and work.
He also adapted plays of Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Lope de Vega, Dino Buzzati, and Requiem for a Nun of William Faulkner. One may trace his enjoyment of the theater back to his membership in l'Equipe, an Algerian group, whose "collective creation" Révolte dans les Asturies (1934) was banned for political reasons.
Of semi-proletarian parents, early attached to intellectual circles of strongly revolutionary tendencies, with a deep interest, he came at the age of 25 years in 1938; only chance prevented him from pursuing a university career in that field. The man and the times met: Camus joined the resistance movement during the occupation and after the liberation served as a columnist for the newspaper Combat.
The essay Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus), 1942, expounds notion of acceptance of the absurd of Camus with "the total absence of hope, which has nothing to do with despair, a continual refusal, which must not be confused with renouncement - and a conscious dissatisfaction."
Meursault, central character of L'Étranger (The Stranger), 1942, illustrates much of this essay: man as the nauseated victim of the absurd orthodoxy of habit, later - when the young killer faces execution - tempted by despair, hope, and salvation.
Besides his fiction and essays, Camus very actively produced plays in the theater (e.g., Caligula, 1944).
The time demanded his response, chiefly in his activities, but in 1947, Camus retired from political journalism.
Doctor Rieux of La Peste (The Plague), 1947, who tirelessly attends the plague-stricken citizens of Oran, enacts the revolt against a world of the absurd and of injustice, and confirms words: "We refuse to despair of mankind. Without having the unreasonable ambition to save men, we still want to serve them."
People also well know La Chute (The Fall), work of Camus in 1956.
Camus authored L'Exil et le royaume (Exile and the Kingdom) in 1957. His austere search for moral order found its aesthetic correlative in the classicism of his art. He styled of great purity, intense concentration, and rationality.
Camus died at the age of 46 years in a car accident near Sens in le Grand Fossard in the small town of Villeblevin.
Chinese 阿尔贝·加缪
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December 24, 2025
Skipped 70 pages of the 105 pages of introductory essays - let me just read the early works of husband Camus?!?
So fun to see the early machinations of the novels & Sisyphus. Clunky and immature obviously, but the frameworks and lassitude are already cropping up.
So fun to see the early machinations of the novels & Sisyphus. Clunky and immature obviously, but the frameworks and lassitude are already cropping up.
September 23, 2022
A surprise to me, and a little gift of affirmation from a very sweet old man
September 19, 2014
Left somewhere in one of my book stacks unread for years till its paper became brownish, this paperback was translated by the same translator, Ellen Conroy Kennedy, who later translated his "Lyrical and Critical Essays" (Vintage, 1970) in which I decided to keep going and finished reading after enjoying his two novels: "The Outsider" (Penguin, 1963) and "The Plague" (Vintage, 1991) as, I think, my reading foundation since reading Camus is not really like reading other novels in general; Camus as the recipient of the prestigious Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957 has since established his formidable literary stature as one of the world-class writers whose works are worth reading, studying and reflecting. Therefore, his literary outputs are simply not common; they need critical reading, at least.
October 3, 2017
"Ci sono delle verità che si scoprono subito dietro un'ansa della mente e da cui ci si distoglie con orrore per non scoprirle interamente." (Ritorno su me stesso, p. 170)
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