Author: Albert Camus
- Fiction
- Debolsillo
- ISBN: 9788466354967
- Release Date: 01-06-2026
Synopsis
In dita en vida del autor, La muerte feliz es la primera novela escrita por Albert Camus y una notable precursora de El extranjero.Albert Camus escribi La muerte feliz en 1935, cuando contaba con solo veintitr s a os de edad. Pese a dejar el texto casi terminado, nunca intent publicarlo, y todo indica que lo aparc para volcarse en su siguiente proyecto, El extranjero. As pues, hubo que esperar hasta 1971, once a os despu s de su muerte, para que el in dito saliera a la luz. Pero la espera no fue en vano. En sus evocaciones l ricas del mar y el paisaje mediterr neo, La muerte feliz aporta claves sobre la experiencia de Camus en Argelia, mientras que su trama y sus personajes prefiguran la cosmovisi n que el autor expuso poco despu s en su «ciclo del absurdo . Le da hoy, esta notable novela de juventud no solo es imprescindible para descubrir las primeras muestras del enorme talento de Camus, sino que resulta un libro fascinante por derecho propio.
The first novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author lays the foundation for The Stranger, telling the story of an Algerian clerk who kills a man in cold blood. In A Happy Death, written when Albert Camus was in his early twenties and retrieved from his private papers following his death in 1960, 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.
