Name: Travels in the Americas: Notes and Impressions of a new World (The France Chicago Collection) (in English)
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Author: Camus, Albert ; Kaplan, Alice ; Bloom, Ryan
ISBN: 9780226694955

portada Travels in the Americas: Notes and Impressions of a new World (The France Chicago Collection) (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Albert Camus

Illustrated by

Alice Kaplan

Translated by

Ryan Bloom

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Language

English

Pages

152

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9780226694955

Synopsis "Travels in the Americas: Notes and Impressions of a new World (The France Chicago Collection) (in English)"

Albert Camus's lively journals from his eventful visits to the United States and South America in the 1940s, available again in a new translation. In March 1946, the young Albert Camus crossed from Le Havre to New York. Though he was virtually unknown to American audiences at the time, all that was about to change--The Stranger, his first book translated into English, would soon make him a literary star. By 1949, when he set out on a tour of South America, Camus was an international celebrity. Camus's journals offer an intimate glimpse into his daily life during these eventful years and showcase his thinking at its most personal--a form of observational writing that the French call choses vues (things seen). Camus's journals from these travels record his impressions, frustrations, joys, and longings. Here are his unguarded first impressions of his surroundings and his encounters with publishers, critics, and members of the New York intelligentsia. Long unavailable in English, the journals have now been expertly retranslated by Ryan Bloom, with a new introduction by Alice Kaplan. Bloom's translation captures the informal, sketch-like quality of Camus's observations--by turns ironic, bitter, cutting, and melancholy--and the quick notes he must have taken after exhausting days of travel and lecturing. Bloom and Kaplan's notes and annotations allow readers to walk beside the existentialist thinker as he experiences changes in his own life and the world around him, all in his inimitable style.

Albert Camus

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Albert Camus (Mondovi hoy Dréan, Argelia francesa, 7 de noviembre de 1913-Villeblevin, Francia, 4 de enero de 1960) fue un novelista, ensayista, dramaturgo, filósofo y periodista francés nacido en la Argelia francesa. Su pensamiento se desarrolla bajo el influjo de los razonamientos filosóficos de Schopenhauer, Nietzsche y el existencialismo alemán.

Se le ha atribuido la conformación del pensamiento filosófico conocido como absurdismo, si bien en su texto «El enigma» el propio Camus reniega de la etiqueta de «profeta del absurdo». Se le ha asociado frecuentemente con el existencialismo, aunque Camus siempre se consideró ajeno a él.2 Pese a su alejamiento consciente con respecto al nihilismo, rescata de él la idea de libertad individual.

Formó parte de la resistencia francesa durante la ocupación alemana, y se relacionó con los movimientos libertarios de la posguerra. En 1957 se le concedió el Premio Nobel de Literatura por «el conjunto de una obra que pone de relieve los problemas que se plantean en la conciencia de los hombres de la actualidad».

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