Happy Death (Vintage International)
by:
Albert Camus (author)
Format: kindle
ASIN: B008QLXR5U
Publish date: August 8th 2012
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 209
Edition language: English
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...
‘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...