Exile and the Kingdom
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958.
Price: $30.00
Hardcover. First American edition. Translated by Justin O'Brien. Owner's name penned on front fly, scattered foxing and light soiling on margins of a few pages, spine cocked, about very good in a good only soiled dustwrapper with spine ends and corners chipped. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.
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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