{"product_id":"a-inteligencia-e-o-cadafalso","title":"Intelligence and the scaffold","description":"\"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eFrom one of the most important and representative authors of the 20th century and Nobel Prize winner for Literature.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA visceral writer, journalist, essayist, and author of seminal works such as \u003cem\u003eThe Plague\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Stranger\u003c\/em\u003e , Albert Camus also devoted part of his time to producing critical texts on literature itself. This is the Camus of \u003cem\u003eIntelligence and the Scaffold\u003c\/em\u003e , 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eThus, from Wilde, he courageously abandons classics like \u003cem\u003eSalome\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eand The Picture of Dorian Gray\u003c\/em\u003e in favor of De \u003cem\u003eProfundis\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Ballad of Reading Gaol\u003c\/em\u003e , 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 \u003cem\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/em\u003e , 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Plague\u003c\/em\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eIn 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, \u003cem\u003eIntelligence and the Scaffold\u003c\/em\u003e is thus also a guide to Camus's personal mythology and the internal structures of works such as \u003cem\u003eThe Inside Out and the Right\u003c\/em\u003e , \u003cem\u003eThe Stranger\u003c\/em\u003e , \u003cem\u003eThe Myth of Sisyphus\u003c\/em\u003e , or \u003cem\u003eThe Rebel\u003c\/em\u003e , landmarks of 20th-century literature.\u003c\/p\u003e \"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159396532476,"sku":"9788501111654","price":54.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/d680820eeca653348b1e3d8b6be062f1_b8d9b8aa-bf64-4538-96f3-ecf243dfbce1.jpg?v=1776891084","url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/products\/a-inteligencia-e-o-cadafalso","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}