An edition of Le premier homme (1994)

Il primo uomo

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An edition of Le premier homme (1994)

Il primo uomo

1. ed.
  • 3.0 (1 rating) ·
  • 38 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 2 Have read

"The First Man is a radiant, deeply moving novel of childhood. Camus intended it as the opening book of a projected epic - his War and Peace - but in its storytelling magic and its evocative power, it has a satisfying completeness on its own, covering, as it does, the years of Camus's childhood in Algeria. As he recaptures memories of growing up fatherless with a deaf-mute mother and an illiterate, tyrannical grandmother, Camus renders the poverty of a working-class neighborhood transcended by all the sensuous pleasures that nourish this boy's young life - the escapes to the beach and to the soccer fields with his schoolmates, the joyous hunting expeditions in the backcountry with his uncle and his cronies, the sounds and smells of the streets and docks of Belcourt, the delights of the sun and the sea, and his overwhelming love for his silent mother. Throughout there is the undercurrent of a frustrating search for a father and the awareness of the escalating tension between Algeria and France. But with the miraculous intervention of a wise schoolteacher, the future suddenly opens up."--BOOK JACKET.

Publish Date
Publisher
Bompiani
Language
Italian
Pages
300

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Cover of: Le premier homme
Le premier homme
2018-02-07, Gallimard
in French
Cover of: Pierwszy czlowiek
Pierwszy czlowiek
2016, W.A.B. / GW Foksal
in Polish
Cover of: Premier homme
Premier homme
2000, Gallimard
Paperback in French
Cover of: The first man
The first man
1996, G.K. Hall & Co
in English
Cover of: The first man
The first man
1995, Knopf
in English
Cover of: The first man
The first man
1995, Knopf
in English
Cover of: Le premier homme
Le premier homme
1994, France loisirs
in French
Cover of: Il primo uomo
Il primo uomo
1994, Bompiani
in Italian - 1. ed.
Cover of: O primeiro homem
O primeiro homem
1994, Nova Fronteira
in Portuguese
Cover of: Le premier homme
Le premier homme
1994, Gallimard
in English

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Translation of: Le premier homme.

Published in
Milano
Series
Romanzo Bompiani

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Pagination
300 p. :
Number of pages
300

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24966830M
Internet Archive
ilprimouomo00camu
ISBN 10
8845223175

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