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Fața și reversul; Nunta; Mitul lui Sisif; Omul revoltat; Vara
Acest al doilea volum din seria "Camus" propusa cititorului român de Editura RAO, cuprinde: "Fata si reversul", "Nunta", "Mitul lui Sisif", "Omul revoltat", "Vara". "Fata si reversul" a văzut lumina tiparului în Algeria, într-un număr redus de exemplare. Era încercarea tînărului Camus de a exprima ca şi în operele de mai târziu absurditatea unei lumi contradictorii: pe de o parte fericirea, bucuria, tinereţea - deci gustul pentru acţiune, iar pe de altă parte singurătatea, boala, moartea - adică nevoia de izolare în contemplare. Camus nu ezita însă nici un moment să afirme capacitatea omului de a purta în sine tot ceea ce poate explica universul şi destinul. Inedit pentru cititorul român este "Omul revoltat", eseu care prin conţinutul său nu a putut fi până acum publicat de noi din cauze bine ştiute.
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First published January 1, 1994
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About the author
Albert Camus
1,083 books37.9k 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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November 1, 2017
4,5*
Fața şi reversul - 4*
Nunta - 4*
Mitul lui Sisif - 5*
Omul revoltat - 4*
Vara - 4*
Fața şi reversul - 4*
Nunta - 4*
Mitul lui Sisif - 5*
Omul revoltat - 4*
Vara - 4*
May 30, 2022
Iertată-mi fie impertinența, dar am întors această carte cu ultimele 60 de pagini necitite.
Am plonjat în "non-existențialismul" lui Camus, am rezonat în multe locuri cu el, dar mi-am luat și câteva bătăi de cap.
Camus este un geniu al științelor, iar eseurile lui nu pot fi citite fără referințele de rigoare.
Aproape finisată cartea, mi-am zis că e un păcat și mai mare să citești și să nu pătrunzi în profunzimea celor lecturate.
De aceea, între mine și Camus nu este o despărțire, ci urmează o revedere.
Am plonjat în "non-existențialismul" lui Camus, am rezonat în multe locuri cu el, dar mi-am luat și câteva bătăi de cap.
Camus este un geniu al științelor, iar eseurile lui nu pot fi citite fără referințele de rigoare.
Aproape finisată cartea, mi-am zis că e un păcat și mai mare să citești și să nu pătrunzi în profunzimea celor lecturate.
De aceea, între mine și Camus nu este o despărțire, ci urmează o revedere.
April 5, 2019
Este un spectacol sa il citesti pe Camus. Am simtit intotdeauna o adevarata placere citind operele lui, adevarate podoabe la care cu siguranta voi reveni.
July 28, 2016
sa inveti sa traiesti si sa mori si, ca sa fii om, sa refuzi sa fii zeu!
in rest... filosofie, revolta, absurd, viata, moarte, dreptate, libertate, valoare, teroare, masura, Nietzsche, Hegel, Marx, Rimbaud, Sisif, Dostoievski, Kafka, de Sade, romantism, fascism, comunism, revolutie, arta, iubire... etc.
ps1. i-as fi dat 6 stele, daca s-ar fi putut!
ps2. fara lectura anterioara a operelor autorilor mentionati (alaturi de altii, bineinteles) nu poti intelege decat partial argumentatia, sistemul de gandire ...asa ca, spor la citit (sic!)!
in rest... filosofie, revolta, absurd, viata, moarte, dreptate, libertate, valoare, teroare, masura, Nietzsche, Hegel, Marx, Rimbaud, Sisif, Dostoievski, Kafka, de Sade, romantism, fascism, comunism, revolutie, arta, iubire... etc.
ps1. i-as fi dat 6 stele, daca s-ar fi putut!
ps2. fara lectura anterioara a operelor autorilor mentionati (alaturi de altii, bineinteles) nu poti intelege decat partial argumentatia, sistemul de gandire ...asa ca, spor la citit (sic!)!
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November 15, 2016imprumatata smarandei
June 25, 2024
I didn't manage to read the entire book. The book is a collection of essays and the stories go nowhere. It also require to have read before some of Dostoievski operas. Interesting style but, no story to attach after you deal with this book.
July 28, 2016
Highly recommended!
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