Committed Writings

Name: Committed Writings
Brand: Albert Camus
SKU: 9780241400401
Price: 9.07 GBP
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by Albert Camus

Title:

Committed Writings

Author:

Albert Camus

Series (if any):

Penguin Modern Classics

Format:

Paperback

Number of pages:

160 pages

Publisher:

TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale

ISBN-13:

9780241400401

EAN:

9780241400401

Classifications:

Biography and non-fiction prose

Weight (g):

244

Dimensions (mm):

128 x 196 x 15

Publication Country:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Condition:

New

Price:£9.07

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Description

'To create today means to create dangerously'This new collection contains some of Camus' most brilliant political writing as he reflects on moral responsibility and the role of the artist in the world. Letters to a German Friend, written and published underground during the Nazi occupation of France, was born out of Camus' experience in the Resistance and explores what it truly means to love your country. Reflections on the Guillotine, his impassioned polemic against the death penalty, became a touchstone for the movement to abolish capital punishment, while in his Nobel speeches Camus argues that the artist must engage with dangerous times. Together these powerful pieces express Camus' mistrust of rigid ideologies, and his commitment to human solidarity. 'Probably no European writer of his time left so deep a mark on the imagination' Conor Cruise O'Brien