- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Vintage; Reprint edition (Feb 13 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0307278581
- ISBN-13: 978-0307278586
- Product Dimensions: 13.2 x 1.3 x 20.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 181 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #249,747 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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“Thoroughly engrossing” —The New York Times
“[These stories] invite comparison with his best work” —The Nation --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
“[These stories] invite comparison with his best work” —The Nation --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Book Description
From a variety of masterfully rendered perspectives, these six stories depict people at painful odds with the world around them. A wife can only surrender to a desert night by betraying her husband. An artist struggles to honor his own aspirations as well as society's expectations of him. A missionary brutally converted to the worship of a tribal fetish is left with but an echo of his identity. Whether set in North Africa, Paris, or Brazil, the stories in Exile and the Kingdom are probing portraits of spiritual exile, and man’s perpetual search for an inner kingdom in which to be reborn. They display Camus at the height of his powers.
Now, on the 50th anniversary of the book’s publication, Carol Cosman’s new translation recovers a literary treasure for our time.
Albert Camus won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.
Now, on the 50th anniversary of the book’s publication, Carol Cosman’s new translation recovers a literary treasure for our time.
Albert Camus won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Good review but a bit mislead,
By Miss B (Trenton, Ontario) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Exile and the Kingdom (Penguin Modern Classics) (Paperback)
The book arrived in good condition as advertised. Bought it for only a penny but I bought it because the company listed itself as in Ontario and not where it really is.... IN THE UK. Not a huge problem but a little dishonest. Probably should have read the other reviews as many ppl have mentioned this.Above that GOOD PRODUCT, AS LISTED, GREAT VALUE.
2.0 out of 5 stars
LET ME OUT OF HERE,
By Sesho (Pasadena, TX USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Exile and the Kingdom (Paperback)
Well, here I am again with Albert Camus. This is the third review of one of his works that I've written. I thought The Stranger was a great work and so I went on to The Fall and found it lacking. I've found that Camus is at his best when he concentrates on a story instead of preaching to his audience. Yeah, you can put philosophical ideas in fiction but you have to clothe it deeply enough in story. In Exile and the Kingdom (1958), a book of 6 short stories comes closer to the storytelling brillance of The Stranger but doesn't quite pull it off. Most of the stories in the book are about people that are being repressed by society in one form or another. They have gotten sick of their lives and are on the cusp of breaking down or screaming out or surrendering to their fate. Some of them escape and some of the characters don't. The first story, "The Adulterous Woman" is about a woman who has been married too long and while visiting an Arab town begins to awaken her physical being to the sights and sounds of the desert and of other men. "The Renegade" shows what happens when a missionary priest is captured by a tribe of savages and is forced to worship a pagan idol. This is one of the more effective stories and reminds me of the first person style of The Fall. "The Silent Men" concerns us with one of the favorite pasttimes of Europeans, namely the labor dispute. It is about the relations between some barrelmakers and their boss. Not exactly high drama. In "The Guest", a schoolteacher on a remote mountain, isolated from civilization, is given the responsibility of escorting a murderer to the civil authorities. "The Artist at Work" is the greatest story in the book. It is about the continual conflict between an artist's desire to be a part of society and the need he has for solitude. The painter in this story gets married, has kids, tries to be a celebrity, and almost destroys his very reason for being. Almost everyone, even his disciples, are unknowingly killing him because they never allow him time to work. The last story in the book, "The Growing Stone" was almost completely a waste of time. I know it was about a French engineer going to a rainforest village to construct a flood prevention system but beyond that it got shaky. I know he went to one of their celebrations and saw something like a voodoo ceremony but beyond that I didn't have a clue as to what was going on. I'm sure it was one of those Heart of Darkness things where civilized European confronts dark forces of the jungle and loses. This book as a whole was OK. Nothing bad. Just Ok. The artist story was quite good even though it was a bit melodramatic and romantic. "The Renegade" I'll have to read again but I believe it to be quite masterful too. As for the other stories, I don't see that you would miss anything if you didn't read them. There just doesn't seem to be a lot going on in them. The characters aren't given enough to make us interested in them. In fact, I don't think any of these stories are essential to Camus' work or French literature. They were just average to me. Read The Stranger instead.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Exile and the Kingdom,
By marilyn jones (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Exile and the Kingdom (Paperback)
You get the first impression of the book in the first chapter when Camus states (paraphrasing) that we are all free lords of our own strange kingdom. We control our thoughts and our actions; whether the outcome be our view of our Kingdom, we all believe there is one, and we are constantly trying to obtain it. Though the book is a bit easy, it was a good refresher of Camus...how liberating he can be sometimes!
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