The Rebel
by Albert Camus, Anthony Bower (Translator), Olivier Todd (Introduction by)
ISBN-10: 0141182016
ISBN-13: 9780141182018
$12.67
Book Specs
Binding
Trade Paper
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Published on
Dec 7, 2000
Edition
1st Edition
Dimensions
8.50x5.43x0.69 Inches
Weight
0.44 Pounds
About the Book
The Rebel is Camus's 'attempt to understand the time I live in' and a brilliant essay on the nature of human revolt. Published in 1951, it makes a daring critique of communism - how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain and the resulting totalitarian regimes. It questions two events held sacred by the left wing - the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian Revolution of 1917 - that had resulted, he believed, in terrorism as a political instrument.
In this towering intellectual document, Camus argues that hope for the future lies in revolt, which unlike revolution is a spontaneous response to injustice and a chance to achieve change without giving up collective and intellectual freedom.