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Original Title:	Le premier homme
ISBN:	0783816014 (ISBN13: 9780783816012)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Algeria

The First Man Paperback | Pages: 359 pages

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Title	:	The First Man
Author	:	Albert Camus
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Large Print
Pages	:	Pages: 359 pages
Published	:	March 1st 1996 by Thorndike Press (first published April 13th 1994)
Categories	:	Fiction. Philosophy. Cultural. France. Classics. Literature. European Literature. French Literature

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The unfinished manuscript of The First Man was discovered in the wreckage of a car accident in which Camus died in 1960. Although it was not published for over thirty years, it was an instant bestseller when it finally appeared in 1994. The 'first man' is Jacques Cormery, whose poverty-stricken childhood in Algiers is made bearable by his love for his silent and illiterate mother, and by the teacher who transforms his view of the world. The most autobiographical of Camus's novels, it gives profound insights into his life, and the powerful themes underlying his work.

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Some of my favorite quotes:-There are people who vindicate the world, who help others live just by their presence (35).-There is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts (36).-dependence and necessity remain, and that is not far from resembling love (222).-her son, endlessly, watched her in the shadows with a lump in his throat, staring at her thin bent back, filled with an obscure anxiety in the presence of adversity he could not understand (228).-She embraced him, and then,

OK, the hubby has never heard me say, "One of the best I've ever read," but he heard it when I finished this. Camus' other books that I recently read, The Stranger and The Fall, were both good, worthy of the five star rating I gave them, but in comparison, this deserves ten stars. It is about a man (it is autobiographical, so it's about Camus himself) who returns to the Algerian neighborhood in which he grew up to see his mom, visit the grave of the father he never knew, and try to learn more

Super translation that captures the clarity, vividness and unfussiness of Camus's writing. One of my favourite works, purely because of its evocative powers.

I studied Camus in school, like all French schoolchildren. Apart from chosen excerpts that always pepper young readers' school anthologies, you tackle Camus in high school when you get to Existentialism in your history of French literature curriculum. Well, I remember clearly that I had liked Camus the best... I am not a fan of the Existentialist Posse, that is for sure... but Camus is different somehow, not sure if it the Algerian sun, the very modest origins... he is just so human, so

Le Premier Homme = The First Man, Albert CamusThe First Man is Albert Camus' unfinished final novel. On January 4, 1960, at the age of forty-six, Camus was killed in a car accident. The incomplete manuscript of The First Man, the autobiographical novel Camus was working on at the time of his death, was found in the mud at the accident site. Camus' daughter, Catherine Camus, later transcribed the handwritten manuscript to type press, and published the book in 1994. Camus hoped that it would be

This book was not what I expected. Due to the philosophical, melancholy nature of the first two Camus books Ive read, (The Stranger and The Plague), I expected this book to be more academic, but it was far from it; its a more personal book, nostalgic, full of feelings and memories.This book is considered to be an autobiographical novel, and its unedited manuscript was found in the car wreckage in which Camus was killed. Even for an unedited piece of work, it is simply a masterpiece. It was

The first man is the story of a miracle; a miracle that starts with a little boy growing in abject poverty in North Africa, between the chores at home and the moments of freedom running through the streets of Algiers with his friends. To make matters worse, this boy never knew his father and his mother is desperately weak and incapable of providing any emotional support to her two sons. His grandma is the real master at home and she is the mighty dictator that the boy has to overcome in order to