Caligula and Cross Purpose (Le Malentendu)
(London): Hamish Hamilton, (1947).
Price: $35.00
Hardcover. First English edition. Translated by Stuart Gilbert. 12mo. Burgundy cloth. Modest foxing and offsetting on endpapers, binding slightly cocked with a faint crease on the spine, very good in a good only dust jacket with chips and tears, a toned spine, and stains on both panels.
Item #550199
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