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A Happy Death

by: Albert Camus (author)

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ISBN: 9780140036985 (0140036989)

Edition language: English

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Classics, Novels, Literature, European Literature, Cultural, Philosophy, France, French Literature

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As a sort-of preconception of The Stranger, A Happy Death is also its flip-side in which Mersault gets away with pre-meditated murder (as opposed to what we could say is, if I remember correctly, involuntary manslaughter in The Stranger.)While Mersault of A Happy Death is not yet the alienated and d...

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http://jeremydavies.booklikes.com A Cruel Man Delighting in Flowers 4.5 Poetry and Truth in 'A Happy Death'

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‘No, because I’m constantly in revolt. That’s what’s wrong.’At either end of his writing life, we have two fractured novels. The First Man was a genuinely unfinished work-in-progress at his time of death, whereas this novel, his first novel-in-embryo, was reworked a number of times before Camus aban...

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