Exile and the Kingdom (Vintage International) by Albert Camus (EPUB)

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These six stories, written at the height of Camus’ artistic powers, all depict people at decisive, revelatory moments in their lives. Translated by Justin O’Brien.

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⭐The absolute most brilliant writing! Hold on to your hat!!Super Suspenseful!!

⭐Eloquently written to allude impressions taken from endless sheets of split seconds throughout his life, Camus injects in several short stories the scattered pieces of his life experience that couldn’t be planned out according to any persisting norm and his philosophy which might have found petrification only through a real reconciliation of the bigger socio-political conflict between the colonialists and the colonies, the Europeans overseas and the indigenous, which have surrounded his life-long agony and indecision.He is the master at bringing you behind the lurking eyes that gaze through the margins of each society only from a distance, with enough symbolic and emotional detachment, like Camus himself had been fated to observe all those to which he had been reluctantly accepted or rejected to belong.

⭐I’m not much of a reader I have to admit, Like I tried reading game of thrones…insanely to many characters to keep track off lol I need visuals. But this book paints a picture were you feel like your there and I have only gotten into the first story becuase there is a few in this book and it is just great.

⭐What a great collection! For those only familiar with The Stranger, this later representation of Camus’ thought will come as a surprise. He is not at all the nihilist he’s made out to be! If only he had lived a little longer, I’m sure we would have seen his work develop to its utmost.

⭐This volume of short fiction by Albert Camus is easy to read and very provoking. The stories contained are varied and unique, but the message is similar to all. Man lives in exile. He constantly searches for a path home, spiritually and in physical terms. This message can be chilling because exile means loss, primarily psychological. The realization of this void is what makes them worthwhile.

⭐Camus is a wizard. Great book on philosophy.

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⭐Each story stands alone with no common theme.As one reads each of them it is apparent that this is no ordinary writer but someone with an insight into what motivates people from different backgrounds in a world of great inequality where each of us have to make our way as best we can.Yet all of us have moral choices to make and we must decide which ethical principles should determine just how we are to negotiate the ethical dilemmas that will inevitably face us along life’s unpredictable path.

⭐Exile and Kingdom is the chrysalis out of which The Fall (his great 3rd novel) formed.The stories depict various forms of exile,isolation,alienation.Four are set in Algeria,one of which “The Guest” gets most directly to Camus’s present situation and dilemma: how do you treat the Arabs if you are a French Algerian?Daru is a teacher and is asked to keep an Arab prisoner in his house,one who killed his brother,then take him to the nearest town.There is a sense of the native Arab population on the move,in revolt,ready to rise up against their colonist masters.The story is unsettling in light of Camus’s treatment by fellow French intellectuals like Sartre and his position as a pied-noir in Algeria.Camus refused to take sides in the conflict.Daru like Camus is exiled by the choices he has made. Daru does not turn in the prisoner,he sets him on his way to make his own choice,freedom or imprisonment.This kindness may result in death.The village was beginning to stir.This is my favorite story.The Adulterous Woman is disenchanted with her husband on a business trip through Algeria,she still feels attractive to other men,but the vigor has gone out of their marriage.She communes with the night stars,identifies with the nomads she can see from the fort as they aren’t tied to the town.She is no longer an extension of her husband,she is freed to embrace the wider world.The native Algerians are disdained by Marcel,her husband.In The Renegade the exiled ex-priest narrator is waiting in the desert,a prisoner of a desert tribe,who have cut out his tongue,having become converted to the dionysiac religion of his masters. The narrator had been a missionary to the tribes of Taghasa,he now waits to kill the new missionary. He disowns Christ, refusing to believe in his righteousness and declares that the Fetish and the power of hatred are the only true and flawless powers in the world.Camus depicts religion as the disjointed absurdity of a disordered mind.The Silent Men is about a labour dispute in a Cooper’s shop in the Algeria of Camus’s youth. They have recently returned to work after a failed strike. When the owner’s daughter has a serious, acute illness requiring an ambulance, the men do not offer any words of condolence. Where once there had been a sense of being all part of a whole, they no longer feel such for the owner who refused them.The next story is about the successful artist,Jonas, who ceases to be able to paint.The tone reflects Camus’s bitterness and sense of isolation at the time of the quarrel with Sartre and his circle.In his new solitude Camus would never show more solidarity, giving way to the French equation/ pun solitaire-solidaire,the only word(s) written on a blank canvas by Jonas.The last story,The Growing Stone,is set on a Brazilian coastal town.A visiting French engineer,D’Arrast,finds a sort of mystical communion with the remote people.Many of the scenes in Exile and Kingdom have a dream-like quality.The `Kingdom’ in these stories is one of fantasy.The exile is real and from it stems the fantasy of the kingdom.In the stories solidarity pitches up against solitude.The stories are not easy reads,you feel Camus is trying to work on themes in miniature,but they fascinate anyone who has read his more well known novels and essays.

⭐A human prism is the lens that Camus offers to go through any of his stories. Talented to what I would call a sort of luminous darkness he always find those cracks on the wall in the midst of despair. The normality of the terrible functions as a kind of vindication and the uncanny offers exclusive hints to the otherwise common and unattractive. These stories celebrate humanity in the brink of abyss. They are existentialist in their own way and even abominable but still have a call to action. They give a voice to the voiceless and unveils their lack of hope. We may recognize the last register of Camus along this book the same that he harps on in the posthumous The First Man, considered a sort of biography of his own life. Enjoyable and persistent.

⭐Most of us only know Camus by his novels but he was also a fine journalist and writer of short stories. This collection contains the best of his shorter works. Each is unique and most are set in Camus’ Algeria.If you are unfamiliar with the novels, then this is an excellent introduction to the work of one of the greatest French stylists and a novelist of extraordinary power and perception.

⭐Read this years ago. Loved it then and love it now. Camus at his most accessible and haunting.

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