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REVIEWS: A Happy Death
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In his first novel, A Happy Death, written when he was in
his early twenties and retrieved from his private papers
following his death in I960. He also revealed himself to an
extent that he never would in his later fiction. For if A Happy
Death is the study of a rule-bound being shattering the fetters
of his existence, it is also a remarkably candid portrait of its
author as a young man. As the novel follows the protagonist,
Patrice Mersault, to his victim's house -- and then, fleeing, in
a journey that takes him through stages of exile, hedonism,
privation, and death - it gives us a glimpse into the
imagination of one of the great writers of the twentieth
century. For here is the young Camus himself, in love with the
sea and sun, enraptured by women yet disdainful of romantic
love, and already formulating the philosophy of action and moral
responsibility that would make him central to the thought of our
time.
Characters: 31. Amazon rating: 4 stars. Genre: Fiction.
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