Bataille’s first novel: a legendary shocker that uncovers the dark side of the erotic by means of forbidden obsessive fantasies of excess and sexual extremes. ...
Continue Reading →Jean-Baptiste Clamence is a soul in turmoil. Over several drunken nights in an Amsterdam bar, he regales a chance acquaintance with his story. From this ...
Continue Reading →The unfinished manuscript of The First Man was discovered in the wreckage of car accident in which Camus died in 1960. Although it was not ...
Continue Reading →Part of the Penguin Classics campaign celebrating 100 years of Albert Camus, ‘A Sea Close By’ reveals the writer as a sensual witness of landscapes, ...
Continue Reading →Andrea Alciati’s Emblematum Liber was an essential work for every writer, artist and scholar in post-medieval Europe. First published in 1531, this illustrated book was ...
Continue Reading →Set in North Africa, Paris, and Brazil, the six stories in this masterful collection reveal probing portraits of spiritual exile, and man’s perpetual search for ...
Continue Reading →With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, The Stranger—Camus’s masterpiece—gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an ...
Continue Reading →It tells the story from the point of view of a narrator of a plague sweeping the French Algerian city of Oran. The narrator remains ...
Continue Reading →Originally published in 1943, Inner Experience is the single most significant work by one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers. It outlines a mystical ...
Continue Reading →An Algerian schoolteacher develops a strange alliance with the Arab prisoner temporarily left in his charge, giving him the chance to select his own destiny. ...
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