L’Homme révolté [The Rebel]

Paris, Gallimard, (18 octobre) 1951.
1 vol. (110 x 180 mm) of 382 p. and [1] f. Blue morocco, smooth spine, gilt title, date at bottom, gilt edges on endpapers, gray goatskin lining and endpapers, preserved covers and spine, slipcase (binding signed by J.-P. Miguet).

First edition.
One of 45 copies on Holland paper (No. 33).

We apologize for the imperfect translation generated by Deepl for the purposes of the show.

Camus’ major philosophical essay, which extols the virtues of a creative revolt and whose questions raised a number of controversies, the most famous of which, led by Jean-Paul Sartre, of Francis Jeanson: “Albert Camus ou l’âme révoltée” appeared in the May 1952 issue of Temps modernes. An ideological, public and definitive break between Sartre and Camus, but also a lot of enmity in the French intellectual world (Pierre Bourdieu and the Surrealists in particular, with André Breton in the lead). “It’s a book that caused a lot of fuss but made me more enemies than friends. (…) Of all my books, it’s the one I care about the most,” Camus wrote.

A very fine copy.

From the library of the Geneva doctor Christos Karagevrekis.