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"The Rebel" is Camus's attempt to understand the time 'I live in' and a brilliant essay on the nature of human revolt. Published in 1951, it makes a daring critique of communism, how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain, and the resulting totalitarian regimes. It questions two events held sacred by the left wing, the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian Revolution of 1917 that had resulted, he believed, in terrorism as a political instrument. In this towering intellectual document, Camus argues that hope for the future lies in revolt, which unlike revolution is a spontaneous response to injustice, and a chance to achieve change without giving up collective and intellectual freedom.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Prose: non-fiction Literary essays

• Full title: Rebel
• Author: Albert Camus
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• EAN: 9780141182018
• ISBN: 0141182016
• ID: 04026868
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Weight: 204 g
• Dimensions: 195 × 130 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 07. December 2000

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