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The first man

Traces the story of Jacques Cormery, a young man who rises above the losses and misfortunes of his childhood in Algeria.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Camus, Albert, 1913-1960
Other Authors:	Hapgood, David
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English French
Published:	New York : Vintage Books, 1996, ³1995.
Edition:	1st Vintage International ed.
Subjects:	Children > Fiction. Fatherless families > Fiction. Algeria > Fiction. Domestic fiction.
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Summary:	Traces the story of Jacques Cormery, a young man who rises above the losses and misfortunes of his childhood in Algeria.
Item Description:	Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1995.
Physical Description:	viii, 325 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:	0679768165 9780679768166 9781439507537 1439507538
Author Notes:	Born in 1913 in Algeria, Albert Camus was a French novelist, dramatist, and essayist. He was deeply affected by the plight of the French during the Nazi occupation of World War II, who were subject to the military's arbitrary whims. He explored the existential human condition in such works as L'Etranger (The Outsider, 1942) and Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus, 1942), which propagated the philosophical notion of the "absurd" that was being given dramatic expression by other Theatre of the Absurd dramatists of the 1950s and 1960s. Camus also wrote a number of plays, including Caligula (1944). Much of his work was translated into English. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. Camus died in an automobile accident in 1960. (Bowker Author Biography)