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Blurb: “EXILE AND THE KINGDOM by Albert Camus The hero of this book of extraordinary intensity is modern man himself. All through it one voice is heard
-the voice of Camus, convincing us once again that he is the conscience of our troubled epoch.
Here, in some of the finest pages Camus has ever written, a wife betrays her husband, leaving his bed to give herself to the desert night; a trusting school-teacher, who might be any one of us, learns that the freedom not to choose imposes a tragic penalty; in a satiric fable, a carefree artist is caught between society's values and the pursuit of his solitary star; and a French engineer purifies himself through an act of brotherhood in the Brazilian jungle.
Yet in these different critical moments of human experience the author of The Fall is exploring a single theme through a variety of perspectives and tones ranging from the stream of consciousness to realistic narration. The theme is man himself-man condemned by his nature and circumstances to spiritual exile, ever seeking an inner kingdom in which he may be reborn.”