Exile and the Kingdom
内容简介
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 man’s perpetual search for an inner kingdom in which to be reborn. They display Camus at the height of his powers.
Now, on the 50th anniversary of the book’s publication, Carol Cosman’s new translation recovers a literary treasure for our time.
Albert Camus won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.
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作者简介
Albert Camus (1913-60) grew up in a working-class neighbourhood in Algiers. He studied philosophy at the University of Algiers, and became a journalist. His most important works include The Outsider, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Plague and The Fall. After the occupation of France by the Germans in 1941, Camus became one of the intellectual leaders of the Resistance movement. He was killed in a road accident, and his last unfinished novel, The First Man, appeared posthumously.
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读书文摘
您知道为什么我们总是对死人更公正、更宽宏大量吗？原因很简单！对他们没有义务。他们让我们更自由，我们可以从容不迫，把尊敬穿插在鸡尾酒和可爱的情妇之间，在闲暇之中。如果他们强迫我们什么，那就是怀念他们。然而我们却是健忘的。 不，在我们的朋友中，我们爱的是刚刚死去的人，痛苦的死者，我们的悲恸，最后是我们自己。
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