Summary
Albert Camus: A Happy Death
In his first novel, written in his early twenties and only discovered posthumously in 1960, Camus set the thematic framework for everything he would incorporate years later into The Stranger.
Happiness is human and eternity is everyday.
A Happy Death follows the protagonist to his victim's house and back, examining his journey from crime to exile, capture and death. "without anger, without hatred, without regret", giving a clear and unfiltered insight into Camus's imagination and its obsessive things.
Before us is the young Camus, in love with the sea and the sun, enchanted by women and already ready to lay the foundations of his existentialist philosophy, a philosophy that calls for action and moral responsibility, and which made him one of the central figures of his time.
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