Translated by Anthony Bower With an Introduction by Oliver Todd 'A conscience with style' V.S. Pritchett The Rebel (1951) is Camus's 'attempt to understand the time I live in' and a brilliant essay on the nature of human revolt. Here he makes a daring critique of communism - how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain and the resulting totalitarian regimes. And he questions two events held sacred by the left wing - the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian Revolution of 1917 - that had resulted, he believed, in the use of terrorism as a political instrument. In this towering intellectual document, Camus argues that hope for the future lies in revolt with revolution - a chance to achieve change without losing our freedom. 'The last French intellectual to take the side of humanity and talk its language . . . a figure of immense moral stature' Sunday Times Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Books LTD
ISBN-13
9780141182018
eBay Product ID (ePID)
87871415
Product Key Features
Author
Albert Camus
Publication Name
The Rebel
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Government, Politics, History
Publication Year
2000
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
198mm
Item Width
129mm
Item Weight
202g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Albert Camus
Series Title
Penguin Modern Classics
Topic
Literary Theory
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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