L’Homme révolté

Name: L'Homme révolté
SKU: 25766
Author: Albert Camus

Paris, Gallimard, (October 18) 1951.

1 vol. (110 x 180 mm) of 382 p. and [1] f. Midnight-blue morocco, smooth spine, gilt title, date gilt at foot, edges gilt on the rough, gray goatskin doublures and endleaves, original wrappers and spine preserved, chemise-slipcase (binding signed J.-P. Miguet).

First edition.

One of 45 copies on Hollande paper (no. 33).

Camus’s major philosophical essay extols the virtues of a creative rebellion, and its arguments provoked numerous controversies, the most famous being Francis Jeanson’s “Albert Camus ou l’âme révoltée,” orchestrated by Jean-Paul Sartre and published in the May 1952 issue of Les Temps modernes. The episode marked a public and definitive ideological break between Sartre and Camus, and also created lasting enmities within the French intellectual world, notably with Pierre Bourdieu and with the Surrealists led by André Breton. “It is a book that caused a great stir, but which won me more enemies than friends… Of all my books, it is the one I care for most,” Camus later wrote.

A very fine copy.

From the library of the Geneva physician Christos Karagevrekis.

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