Exile and the Kingdom
Exile and the Kingdom by Albert Camus, published by Penguin Books in 1962, presents a collection of six stories that explore the theme of spiritual exile through various perspectives. Written in English and spanning 151 pages, this edition showcases Camus’s literary prowess as it delves into the struggles of individuals grappling with their identities and the world around them.
Readers will encounter narratives that highlight the complexities of human experience, such as a wife’s betrayal under the weight of a desert night and an artist caught between personal ambition and societal expectations. Set against diverse backdrops including North Africa, Paris, and Brazil, these stories offer profound insights into the quest for an inner kingdom and the challenges of reconciling one’s existence with external realities. This new translation by Carol Cosman commemorates the 50th anniversary of the book’s original publication, bringing Camus’s work to a contemporary audience.
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From a variety of masterfully rendered perspectives, these six stories depict people at painful odds with the world around them. A wife can only surrender to a desert night by betraying her husband. An artist struggles to honor his own aspirations as well as society’s expectations of him. A missionary brutally converted to the worship of a tribal fetish is left with but an echo of his identity. Whether set in North Africa, Paris, or Brazil, the stories in Exile and the Kingdom are probing portraits of spiritual exile, and man’s perpetual search for an inner kingdom in which to be reborn. They display Camus at the height of his powers.
Now, on the 50th anniversary of the book’s publication, Carol Cosman’s new translation recovers a literary treasure for our time.
Albert Camus won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.
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