Exile and the kingdom : stories
Camus, Albert, 1913-19602007
Book
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 honour 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.
Main title:
Exile and the kingdom : stories / Albert Camus ; translated and with an introduction by Carol Cosman ; foreword by Orhan Pamuk.
Author:
Camus, Albert, 1913-1960, authorCosman, Carol, translator, author of introductionPamuk, Orhan, 1952-, author of foreword
Imprint:
New York, New York : Vintage International, 2007.©2006
Collation:
xxiv, 166 pages ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Translated from the French.
Contents:
The adulterous wifeThe renegade, or, A confused mindThe voicelessThe guestJonas, or, The artist at workThe growing stone.
ISBN:
9780307278586 (paperback)
Language:
EnglishFrench
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BRN:
432655