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Title: Rebel, The
Author: CAMUS ALBERT
Format: PAPERBACK
Imprint: PENGUIN BOOKS
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active
Translated byAnthony BowerWith an Introduction byOliver Todd’A conscience with style’V.S. PritchettThe Rebel (1951) is Camus’s ‘attempt to understand the time I live in’ and a brilliant essay on the nature of human revolt. Here he makes a daring critique of communism – how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain and the resulting totalitarian regimes. And he questions two events held sacred by the left wing – the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian Revolution of 1917 – that had resulted, he believed, in the use of terrorism as a political instrument.In this towering intellectual document, Camus argues that hope for the future lies in revolt with revolution – a chance to achieve change without losing our freedom.’The last French intellectual to take the side of humanity and talk its language . . . a figure of immense moral stature’Sunday TimesWinner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
ISBN: 9780141182018
Edition: 01