Intelligence and the scaffold

Name: Intelligence and the scaffold
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Autor: Albert Camus

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From one of the most important and representative authors of the 20th century and Nobel Prize winner for Literature.

A visceral writer, journalist, essayist, and author of seminal works such as The Plague and The Stranger , Albert Camus also devoted part of his time to producing critical texts on literature itself. This is the Camus of Intelligence and the Scaffold , a collection of critiques, reviews, and prefaces in which he examines authors such as Oscar Wilde, Jean Paul-Sartre, and Herman Melville, using them to reflect on his own literary, philosophical, and ideological concerns.

Thus, from Wilde, he courageously abandons classics like Salome and The Picture of Dorian Gray in favor of De Profundis and The Ballad of Reading Gaol , the subjects of the essay "The Artist in Prison," an example of his theory that suffering and the most extreme misery hold a kind of happiness. For Camus, it is far from the aristocratic salons, in the darkness of his cell and in the company of the rabble, that Wilde finds a language that breaks with his former burlesque life, creating in him a complicity with those who suffer. In the works of Herman Melville, author of Moby-Dick , whom he elevates to the status of "Homer of the Pacific," Camus finds revolt and consent, indomitable and extreme love, pain and loneliness, the absurd transformed into the commonplace—themes that form the basis of The Plague .

In his two essays on Sartre, published in Algeria in 1938 and 1939, well before the split between the two authors, Camus already shows how his literary roots differ from the existentialism to which he was always linked. Finally, in the essay that gives the book its title and was published in 1943, we can find a condensation of the author's literary and essayistic career, which would then unfold into characters and reasoning that embody his "conception of man." A critical work, Intelligence and the Scaffold is thus also a guide to Camus's personal mythology and the internal structures of works such as The Inside Out and the Right , The Stranger , The Myth of Sisyphus , or The Rebel , landmarks of 20th-century literature.

ISBN	978-850-111-165-4
Tradutor	Manuel da Costa Pinto, Cristina Murachco
Altura	210 mm
Largura	135 mm
Profundidade	10 mm
Lançamento	22/01/2018
Páginas	128

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Albert Camus

Albert Camus foi um jornalista, filósofo e escritor francês nascido na Argélia, em 1913. Seus trabalhos contribuíram com o crescimento da corrente de pensamento conhecida como absurdismo. Um dos grandes autores do século XX, recebeu o Prêmio Nobel de Literatura em 1957, três anos antes de sua morte. Entre suas maiores obras estão O estrangeiro, A peste e A queda.

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