Exile and the Kingdom

Albert Camus

Knopf, 1958 - Fiction - 213 pages

These six stories, written at the height of Camus' artistic powers, all depict people at decisive, revelatory moments in their lives. Translated by Justin O'Brien.

Contents

• THE ADULTEROUS WOMAN: 3
• THE RENEGADE: 34
• THE SILENT MEN: 62

About the author

Born in 1913 in Algeria, Albert Camus was a French novelist, dramatist, and essayist. He was deeply affected by the plight of the French during the Nazi occupation of World War II, who were subject to the military's arbitrary whims. He explored the existential human condition in such works as L'Etranger (The Outsider, 1942) and Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus, 1942), which propagated the philosophical notion of the "absurd" that was being given dramatic expression by other Theatre of the Absurd dramatists of the 1950s and 1960s. Camus also wrote a number of plays, including Caligula (1944). Much of his work was translated into English. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. Camus died in an automobile accident in 1960.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Exile and the Kingdom; Borzoi book; Vintage Books; Vintage international
• Author: Albert Camus
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Knopf, 1958
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Mar 26, 2008
• ISBN: 067973385X, 9780679733850
• Length: 213 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Classics; Fiction / General; Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Short Stories (single author)