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El extranjero, Bodas, El verano, Carta a un amigo alemán
El extranjero tiene la fuerza y la fascinación de un mito, es uno de los libros más leídos y estudiados en el mundo. Es una obra que podemos encontrar tanto en la habitación de un adolescente como en el portafolios de un catedrático. A través de la historia de un hombre común arrastrado involuntariamente a una situación límite, Camus explota "la desnudez del hombre frente a lo absurdo".
Acompañan a esta edición Bodas, El verano y Carta a un amigo alemán, en estas tres piezas están las raíces ocultas que nutrieron el formidable árbol de la obra camusiana.
Acompañan a esta edición Bodas, El verano y Carta a un amigo alemán, en estas tres piezas están las raíces ocultas que nutrieron el formidable árbol de la obra camusiana.
313 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2017
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About the author
Albert Camus
1,081 books37.8k 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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February 25, 2022
-The Stranger-
The protagonist, Mr. Meursault, will never demonstrate responsibility in his execution or show any feeling of injustice, regret, or pity. Passivity and skepticism in the face of everything and everyone run through the protagonist's behavior: an apathetic sense of existence and even of death itself.
Nihilism leads to the "quietism" of despair. This is because, according to this philosophy, all solution is closed, since "the being" has died and nothingness brings no solution.
In addition, highlighting the terribleness of existence, nihilists do not see human solidarity but are left with an isolated and encapsulated being.
Finally, the possibility of a social world as a response is lost.
Nihilism, by suppressing the gospel, universal values, and divine commandments, leads everyone to end up doing whatever they want.
There is no limit in the acts of man, and therefore one falls into moral relativism, where every atrocious and evil act becomes morally indifferent.
-Nuptials-
It is one of the first occasions in which Camus deals with the absurd and suicide: the author examines religious hope, concluding with the rejection of religions and the rejection of life after death. Everything and these thoughts and reflections advocate living under Nihilism, better developed by philosopher Sartre.
The protagonist, Mr. Meursault, will never demonstrate responsibility in his execution or show any feeling of injustice, regret, or pity. Passivity and skepticism in the face of everything and everyone run through the protagonist's behavior: an apathetic sense of existence and even of death itself.
Nihilism leads to the "quietism" of despair. This is because, according to this philosophy, all solution is closed, since "the being" has died and nothingness brings no solution.
In addition, highlighting the terribleness of existence, nihilists do not see human solidarity but are left with an isolated and encapsulated being.
Finally, the possibility of a social world as a response is lost.
Nihilism, by suppressing the gospel, universal values, and divine commandments, leads everyone to end up doing whatever they want.
There is no limit in the acts of man, and therefore one falls into moral relativism, where every atrocious and evil act becomes morally indifferent.
-Nuptials-
It is one of the first occasions in which Camus deals with the absurd and suicide: the author examines religious hope, concluding with the rejection of religions and the rejection of life after death. Everything and these thoughts and reflections advocate living under Nihilism, better developed by philosopher Sartre.
April 8, 2020
El Extranjero sirve de preámbulo para entender la narrativa camusiana, pero sobre todo en El Verano, se aprecia más la esencia de Albert Camus. Bodas, está lleno de nostalgia y añoranza, pero también de realidad.
December 5, 2022
Al extranjero le doy 4.5 y a lo además 3 estrellas
Por fin termine este libro, no puedo creer que por culpa de DOS paginas de descripción ultra detallada de una playa casi me pierdo las mejores parte de "el verano".
Personalmente me gustó "bodas" pero es algo muy subjetivo. Bodas y el verano no son más que compilaciones de reflecciones y descripciones sobre muchos puntos de Argel, que podrían llegar a aburrirte si no disfrutas las descripciones larga y detalladas. Yo si encontré muchos pasajes muy relajantes pero otros sumamente tediosos.
Sobre el extranjero no tengo mucho que agregar, lo disfrute bastante y lo anoté y subrayé como no tienen una idea, pero no se, no puedo dar una reseña. Solo sepan que me gusto, que cuando lo termine sentí que no le entendí (y aun lo siento) y que muchas de las micro lecciones que se se desarrollan durante la trama principal resonaron mucho conmigo y fueron de mis cosas favoritas.
Voy a poder colocar este libro, dijera mi maestra de literatura, en mi constelación de libros sobre la segunda guerra mundial. (No me esperaba eso)
Por fin termine este libro, no puedo creer que por culpa de DOS paginas de descripción ultra detallada de una playa casi me pierdo las mejores parte de "el verano".
Personalmente me gustó "bodas" pero es algo muy subjetivo. Bodas y el verano no son más que compilaciones de reflecciones y descripciones sobre muchos puntos de Argel, que podrían llegar a aburrirte si no disfrutas las descripciones larga y detalladas. Yo si encontré muchos pasajes muy relajantes pero otros sumamente tediosos.
Sobre el extranjero no tengo mucho que agregar, lo disfrute bastante y lo anoté y subrayé como no tienen una idea, pero no se, no puedo dar una reseña. Solo sepan que me gusto, que cuando lo termine sentí que no le entendí (y aun lo siento) y que muchas de las micro lecciones que se se desarrollan durante la trama principal resonaron mucho conmigo y fueron de mis cosas favoritas.
Voy a poder colocar este libro, dijera mi maestra de literatura, en mi constelación de libros sobre la segunda guerra mundial. (No me esperaba eso)
December 10, 2024
"... y comprendo que todo mi horror a morir reside en mis celos de vivir".
La experiencia de leer estos cuatro escritos fue impresionante. Comprender el mundo interno de Albert Camus siempre será un honor para mí, no solo por su importancia filosófica, sino por la manera en que narra su mirada a la vida (y, en este caso, a la muerte). Cualquier persona que se interese en Camus, debe leer los últimos tres escritos casi obligatoriamente. Fue inspirador y mágico.
La experiencia de leer estos cuatro escritos fue impresionante. Comprender el mundo interno de Albert Camus siempre será un honor para mí, no solo por su importancia filosófica, sino por la manera en que narra su mirada a la vida (y, en este caso, a la muerte). Cualquier persona que se interese en Camus, debe leer los últimos tres escritos casi obligatoriamente. Fue inspirador y mágico.
February 27, 2025
Te entiendo Meursault, a mi también me molesta el sol.
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December 23, 2025
Mi primer libro de Camus; personalmente me cuesta mucho disfrutar de las obras de este autor, sin embargo reconozco la repercusión que tienen, solo que a mí no me termina de encantar.
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