The First Man (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Albert Camus
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Autobiographical fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, Mothers, Parents and children, Poverty or poor people, Fathers, Existentialism, Algeria or Algerians
- Locales: France, Algiers, Algeria
In contrast to his novels of existential despair, like THE STRANGER (1942) and THE PLAGUE (1947), Camus’ last book affirms the value, even virtue, of the human condition. The author’s notes interspersed throughout this edition leave no doubt as to the story’s autobiographical basis, but Camus names his alter ego Jacques Cormery. After opening with a near-cinematic setting of Jacques’s birth, Camus parallels “then” (Algeria from 1913 to 1928) with “now” (France in the 1950’s). The forty- year old Jacques, who has lived in France for half his life, visits the grave of...
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