The First Man - Albert Camus by Albert Camus
In The First Man, Albert 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 fathers death yet redeemed by the austere beauty of Algeria and the boys attachment to his nearly deaf-mute mother. The result is a moving journey through the lost landscape of youth that also discloses the wellsprings of Camuss aesthetic powers and moral vision., The First Man is a masterpiece, one of the most extraordinary evocations of childhood that exist in any language.
Autobiography & Biographies
The First Man - Albert Camus
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In The First Man, Albert 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 fathers death yet redeemed by the austere beauty of Algeria and the boys attachment to his nearly deaf-mute mother. The result is a moving journey through the lost landscape of youth that also discloses the wellsprings of Camuss aesthetic powers and moral vision., The First Man is a masterpiece, one of the most extraordinary evocations of childhood that exist in any language.
