Albert Camus

[sib]

Has anyone read A Happy Death by Albert Camus? I was looking at it in Waterstones and it looked interesting, but I didn't get it at the time. Wondering if it's worth getting. :?

[Philip Stein]

I think A Happy Death is a precursor to The Outsider (or The Stranger), sib, and so not quite a fully formed work as such. I had little joy with another of his unpolished works, The First Man, recently You might want to make sure you've read all his complete and final stuff first, if you haven't already. My eye has been on The Plague for some time...

[sib]

Cheers, I might get The Outsider instead, then. :upsidedown:

[SmartBomb]

Certainly get The Outsider, and also The Fall; that's Camus in a nutshell in two books!

If you like that, also check out The Plague and The Myth of Sisyphus; harder going, but worth the effort...