La muerte feliz / A Happy Death (Spanish Edition)

ISBN: 8466354964

Author: Camus, Albert

Condition: New

Inédita en vida del autor, La muerte feliz es la primera novela escrita por Albert Camus y una notable precursora de El extranjero.Albert Camus escribió La muerte feliz en 1935, cuando contaba con solo veintitrés aos de edad. Pese a dejar el texto casi terminado, nunca intentó publicarlo, y todo indica que lo aparcó para volcarse en su siguiente proyecto, El extranjero. Así pues, hubo que esperar hasta 1971, once aos después de su muerte, para que el inédito saliera a la luz. Pero la espera no fue en vano. En sus evocaciones líricas del mar y el paisaje mediterráneo, La muerte feliz aporta claves sobre la experiencia de Camus en Argelia, mientras que su trama y sus personajes prefiguran la cosmovisión que el autor expuso poco después en su ciclo del absurdo. Leída hoy, esta notable novela de juventud no solo es imprescindible para descubrir las primeras muestras del enorme talento de Camus, sino que resulta un libro fascinante por derecho propio.ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONThe first novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author lays the foundation for The Stranger, telling the story of an Algerian clerk who kills a man in cold blood.In A Happy Death, written when Albert Camus was in his early twenties and retrieved from his private papers following his death in 1960, revealed himself to an extent that he never would in his later fiction. For if A Happy Death is the study of a rule-bound being shattering the fetters of his existence, it is also a remarkably candid portrait of its author as a young man.As the novel follows the protagonist, Patrice Mersault, to his victim's house -- and then, fleeing, in a journey that takes him through stages of exile, hedonism, privation, and death -it gives us a glimpse into the imagination of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. For here is the young Camus himself, in love with the sea and sun, enraptured by women yet disdainful of romantic love, and already formulating the philosophy of action and moral responsibility that would make him central to the thought of our time.