The First Man
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.
Price: $30.00
Softcover. Uncorrected proof. Translated by David Hapgood. Introduction by Catherine Camus. White printed wrappers. Near fine with publisher's materials stapled inside front wrap. An autobiographical novel of Camus' childhood in Algeria, first published the previous year in France, 34 years after his death.
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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