Exile and the Kingdom
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958.
Price: $200.00
Hardcover. First American edition. Translated by Justin O'Brien. Faint sunning at the edges of the boards, near fine in spine-toned very good or better dust jacket. Author and critic Malcolm Cowley's copy with his ownership signature. Camus was the 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