num_pages: 193
description: From the book cover of the 1973 paperback edition:A Happy Death, Albert Camus's previously unpublished first novel, written when he was in his early twenties, foreshadows his brilliant work, The Stranger. But in it Camus reveals much more of himself that he did in his later, more mythic fiction. Through young Patrice, the protagonist, the reader feels in touch with the young Camus -- his joy in the sea, sun, his native Algeria, his relationships with women, his need of them and detachment from them, the intense alienation he experienced as a traveler in Central Europe. And it is from his early intimations of death, movingly evoked, that the novel draws its theme -- how one is to live in order to have the right death.A Happy Death is the first of the "cahiers that Camus left unpublished, whose publication will complete his literary oeuvre.With an Afterword and Notes by Jean Sarocchi.
language: English
title: A Happy Death
titlecomplete: A Happy Death
characters: Patrice Mersault, Roland Zagreus
genres: Classics, France, Philosophy, Nobel Prize, Novels, 20th Century, Literature, French Literature, Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 17103
places: Algeria
awards: awardedAt: 94723200000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Translation
publisher: Vintage Books, A Division of Randon House