Exile and the Kingdom

Stories

Albert Camus, Carol Cosman

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Penguin
01 August 2006

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Short stories

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

First new translation since publication of Albert Camus's story collection

The stories of Exile and the Kingdom explore the dilemma of being an outsider - even in one's own country - and of allegiance. With intense power and lyricism, Camus evokes beautiful but harsh landscapes, whether the shimmering deserts of his native Algeria or the wild, mysterious jungles of Brazil.

Here a Frenchwoman is gradually seduced by the sheer difference of North Africa, a mutilated renegade is driven mad by the cruelty of his own people, and a barrel-maker watches the slow decline of his craft. A kindly teacher must choose between the law and a life, while a modest painter is out of his depth in the hypocrisy of the art world, and a French engineer discovers a new sense of belonging in a distant land.

By: Albert Camus
Translated by: Carol Cosman
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 7mm
Weight: 103g
ISBN: 9780141188256
ISBN 10: 0141188251
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 01 August 2006
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

French novelist, essayist, and playwright. Albert Camus (1913-1960) was a representative of non-metropolitan French literature. His origin in Algeria and his experiences there in the thirties were dominating influences in his thought and work. Carol Cosman is the translator of many works from French, both literary and scholarly. Among the books she has translated are Jean-Paul Sartre's The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857, Honore de Balzac's Colonel Chabert, Simone de Beauvoir's America Day by Day, and most recently Rene Daumal's Mount Analogue .

Reviews for Exile and the Kingdom: Stories

"""Thoroughly engrossing"" --""The New York Times"" ""[These stories] invite comparison with his best work"" --""The Nation"" "" Thoroughly engrossing"" -- ""The New York Times"" "" [These stories] invite comparison with his best work"" -- ""The Nation"""