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Camus described this brilliant essay on the nature of human revolt as 'an attempt to understand the time I live in'. Published in 1951, it expresses his horror at the events of a period which 'within fifty years, uproots, enslaves, or kills seventy million human beings'. Hope for the future, he argues lies in revolt, which unlike revolution, is a spontaneous response to injustice and a chance to achieve change without giving up individual or collective freedom .
The Rebel created an irreconcilable rift between Camus and his friend Jean-Paul Sartre who bitterly attacked Camus for his criticism of communism.
Summary | An essay on the nature of human revolt, this book makes a critique of communism, how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain, and the resulting totalitarian regimes... |
Author | Albert Camus (Author), Olivier Todd (Introduction by), Anthony Bower (Translator) |
Publisher | Penguin Classics |
Release date | 20001207 |
Pages | 269 |
ISBN | 0-14-118201-6 |
ISBN 13 | 978-0-14-118201-8 |