Exile and the Kingdom, Albert Camus
Exile and the Kingdom, Albert Camus
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Exile and the Kingdom

Author: Albert Camus, Carol Cosman

Narrator: Jefferson Mays

Unabridged: 5 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 08/27/2019

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories


Synopsis

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sarah ♡ on October 07, 2020

His work never fails to impress me. Camus’ collection of six short stories are about people who just want to find a place where they belong, a ‘kingdom’ (home) where they feel as though their ‘exile’ will end and feel meaning/security in their lives. The stories (and my interpretation of each one) a......more

Goodreads review by Michael on February 15, 2009

In "An Experiment in Criticism", Lewis argues that the only way to truly understand a book the reader must surrender to it and to the author's vision. This can be fairly easy when the reader and the author are coming from similar worldviews, but not when they are meeting head on from opposite ends o......more