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 published for over thirty years, it was an instant bestseller when it finally appeared in 1994. The 'first man' is Jacques Cormery, whose poverty-stricken childh
The First Man
β Scribed by Camus, Albert
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Vintage Books
- Year
- 2012;1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 167 KB
- Edition
- 1st Vintage International ed
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Traces the story of Jacques Cormery, a young man who rises above the losses and misfortunes of his childhood in Algeria.
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Camus tells the story of Jacques Cormery, a boy who lived a life much like his own. Camus summons up the sights, sounds and textures of a childhood circumscribed by poverty and a father's death yet redeemed by the austere beauty of Algeria and the boy's attachment to his nearly deaf-mute mother. Pub
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