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EXILE AND THE KINGDOM By: Albert Camus
Now, on the 50th anniversary of the book?s publication, Carol Cosman?s new translation recovers a literary treasure for our time.
Vintage
February 2007
On Sale: February 13, 2007
192 pages ISBN: 0307278581 EAN: 9780307278586 Trade Size
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From a variety of masterfully rendered perspectives, these six stories depict people at painful odds with the world around them. A wife can only surrender to a desert night by betraying her husband. An artist struggles to honor his own aspirations as well as society's expectations of him. A missionary brutally converted to the worship of a tribal fetish is left with but an echo of his identity. Whether set in North Africa, Paris, or Brazil, the stories in Exile and the Kingdom are probing portraits of spiritual exile, and manβs perpetual search for an inner kingdom in which to be reborn. They display Camus at the height of his powers. Albert Camus won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.
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