num_pages: 325
description: In The First Man Albert Camus tells the story of Jacques Cormery, a boy who lived a life much like his own. Camus summons up the sights, sounds, and textures of a childhood circumscribed by poverty and a father's death yet redeemed by the austere beauty of Algeria and the boy's attachment to his nearly deaf-mute mother. The result is a moving journey through the lost landscape of youth that also discloses the wellspring of Camus' aesthetic powers and moral vision.
language: English
title: The First Man
titlecomplete: The First Man
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, French Literature, Classics, France, Philosophy, Algeria, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 9300
places: Algeria
publisher: Knopf