آدم اول
by Albert Camus, مترجم: منوچهر بدیعی
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Read in February, 2006
'El primer hombre' es la novela inacabada que Canys estaba escribiendo cuando murió en un accidente de coche a los 46 años. Se trata también de su novela más autobiográfica, porque habla ni más ni menos de un niño francés que vive en Argel y que está avergonzado de la pobreza y la ignorancia de su familia, una familia formada por una madre medio sorda y ausente, una abuela autoritaria y un tío sordo, y sin padre porque murió en la primera guerra mundial cuando hacía poco que Camus ha...more
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I think I'll be done with all of Camus' fiction after I read this.
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Read in May, 2008
این کتاب قابل مقایسه با شاهکارهای البرکامو نیست اما یه جاهایی از کتاب چیزهای جالبی نوشته که نمونه اش به این صورت است
رفته رفته به معصومیت خود معتقد شدم من تزار بودم بر هر کس و همه کسانی که در اختیارم بودند فرمان می راندم بعدها فهمیدم که انقدر حوصله ندارم که به راستی کسی را دوس...more
رفته رفته به معصومیت خود معتقد شدم من تزار بودم بر هر کس و همه کسانی که در اختیارم بودند فرمان می راندم بعدها فهمیدم که انقدر حوصله ندارم که به راستی کسی را دوس...more
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Read in February, 2003
Some of my favorite quotes:
-“And then he knew that war was no good, because vanquishing a man is as bitter as being vanquished” (155).
-“But the members of the enemy camp must not be given case to snicker and to accuse the protagonist, according to the time-honored expression, of being ‘scared shitless’” (153).
-“No one in the class reacted (except to snicker behind his hand, according to the eternal rule that the punishment of one is felt by others as pleasure)” (150).
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-“And then he knew that war was no good, because vanquishing a man is as bitter as being vanquished” (155).
-“But the members of the enemy camp must not be given case to snicker and to accuse the protagonist, according to the time-honored expression, of being ‘scared shitless’” (153).
-“No one in the class reacted (except to snicker behind his hand, according to the eternal rule that the punishment of one is felt by others as pleasure)” (150).
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Read in October, 2008
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L. Snellrecommends it for: Fans of Camus
This book is sensitive and internally raw Camus. I wanted the story to go on and on. I have found that the more I read Camus the more I fall in love with him. This book has Camus childlike world reveled to us in his own words; words that fragrant the stench of war with the optimistic compliance of his own healthy innocence. Camus was a surrealist. He was a believer in all that was strong in a dream. This book exposes, in his own words, that all he wanted was to play his position in the adventure...more
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Read in February, 1996
There is a reason this book was not published before, it simply was not ready. Found in the wreckage of Camus' car, the manuscript was only half finished and contained many margin notes. I thought the story would give me insight into the mind of the writer, it did not. There is simply not enough here with which to hang a story.
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Read in July, 1999
I read this book back in high school, so perhaps that was the problem, but I simply did not enjoy it at all. It was published from an unfinished manuscript after Camus died, so edits were sometimes undone, names shift throughout, and it, obviously, remains unfinished. I found this made it rather unbearable to get through. I would like to reread it now, about eight years later, to see if my dislike was just the result of required summer reading bitterness; but until that happens, I would not r...more
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Read in January, 2006
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I thought this book was so interesting because it's a manuscript that was found half-finished in Camus' car when he died. It's an autobiography of his youth in Algiers which is incredibly interesting. Be forewarned - there's no ending, since he wasn't finished writing it when it was found and published. It gives a lot of insight into the history of France and Algiers, told through the eyes of a young boy who lived through it.
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I remember awaiting this book when I had read that the manuscript upon which it was based, a mostly assembled autobiography, was being prepared for publication. I have long been fascinated by Camus' reflections on life -- especially in The Myth of Sisyphus -- and I was not disappointed by the opportunity to understand better the circumstances in which a man was raised who would develop and accentuate such a philosophy.
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Read in November, 2007
This book is interesting in that it not only describes one man's search for information about his father but also the writing process of an author. Camus died before he could complete this book and throughout there are footnotes describing parts of the book on which he wanted to expand. It also goes through the emotional stages of this man as he explores his father's life, a man he never knew.
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Read in June, 2007
I found this book a little disappointing--I certainly liked the discussions on death and poverty that Camus espouses here, but I didn't really connect with this one to the same degree that I did with his The Plague or The Rebel. Perhaps The First Man would have been better if Camus'd gotten a chance to edit/revise/expand it.
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