Resistance, Rebellion, and Death
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961.
Price: $85.00
Hardcover. First American edition. Translated by Justin O'Brien. Some pages dog-eared, faint dampstain on top edges of pages and boards and on board foredges, edges of boards a bit sunned, about very good lacking the dust jacket. From the library of the artists Ben Shahn and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with an estate label designed by their son, Jonathan Shahn. One pencil note in an unknown hand on the front fly.
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Albert Camus
birth name: Albert Camus
born: 11/7/1913
died: 1/4/1960
nationality: France
Biography
French novelist, essayist, and playwright who addressed the isolation of the individual in an alien universe, the estrangement of the individual from himself, the problem of evil, and the inescapable finality of death, refelcting the anomie of the postwar intellectual. He received the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature.more