The Rebel: (Penguin Modern Classics) (UK)

The Rebel (Penguin Modern Classics) Paperback – November 30, 2000 by Albert Camus (Author), Anthony Bower (Translator), UK.

"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.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 272 pages
• Dimensions 129 x 198 x 16mm | 202g
• Publication date 07 Dec 2000
• Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
• Imprint Penguin Classics
• Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
• Language English
• ISBN10 0141182016
• ISBN13 9780141182018