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"Il n'y a qu'un problème philosophique vraiment sérieux : c'est le suicide." Avec cette formule foudroyante, qui semble rayer d'un trait toute la philosophie, un jeune homme de moins de trente ans commence son analyse de la sensibilité absurde. Il décrit le "mal de l'esprit" dont souffre l'époque actuelle : "L'absurde naît de la confrontation de l'appel humain avec le silence déraisonnable du monde."
2) L'étranger
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A young Algerian, Meursault, afflicted with a sort of aimless inertia, becomes embroiled in the petty intrigues of a local pimp and, somewhat inexplicably, ends up killing a man. Once he's imprisoned and eventually brought to trial, his crime, it becomes apparent, is not so much the arguably defensible murder he has committed as it is his deficient character. In the story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sun-drenched...
3) L'invitée
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Collection Soleil volume 69
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Gallimard
Pub. Date
1943
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Français
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Existential novel which communicates the conflict of three protagonists: Pierre, Francois, and Xaviere, who are attracted to each other.
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Collection Soleil volume 98
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Gallimard
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[1951]
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Français
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"The Devil and the Good Lord is a 1951 play by French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. The play concerns the moral choices of its characters, warlord Goetz, clergy Heinrich, communist leader Nasti and others during the German Peasants' War. The first act follows Goetz' transformation from vicious war criminal to a "good" person of noble deeds, as during a siege of the town of Worms, he decides not to massacre its citizens.The play was first performed...
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Collection Soleil) volume 9
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Gallimard
Pub. Date
[1951]
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Français
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This is a novel of adventure, a "roman courtois," that tells the story of Angelo, a nobleman who has been forced to leave Italy because of a duel, and is returning to his homeland by way of Provence. But that region is in the grip of a cholera epidemic, travelers are being imprisoned behind barricades, and exposure to the disease is almost certain. Angelo's escapades, adventures, and heroic self-sacrifice in this hot, hallucinatory landscape, among...
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Collection Soleil) volume 64
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Éditions Gallimard
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©1954
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Français
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Un groupe d'amis très soudés se nomme "les Mandarins" en référence aux savants bureaucrates de la Chine impériale. Ils s'identifient eux-mêmes comme intellectuels et se demandent quel genre de rôle ils pourraient jouer dans l'Europe de l'après-guerre. Un conte ironique classique sur la vie et l'amour dans la classe intellectuelle française.
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"Saint Camus, pray for us," it was once observed, has been the frequent plea of many Americans. Albert Camus' reputation, international and unchallenged, has nowhere been higher than in the United States. In this country, high school and college students, young men and women at the beginning of their careers, and older, more mature readers have all found that this contemporary Frenchman put their more profound questions into new perspectives for them....
11) Saint Jean Bosco
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Collection soleil volume 30
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Gallimard
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©1959
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Français
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Collection soleil volume 22
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Gallimard
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[1959]
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Français
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Impish, foul-mouthed Zazie arrives in Paris from the country to stay with her uncle Gabriel. All she really wants to do is ride the metro, but finding it shut because of a strike, Zazie looks for other means of amusement and is soon caught up in a comic adventure that becomes wilder and more manic by the minute.
13) L'age de raison
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His Les chemins de la liberte volume 1
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Gallimard
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Gallimard
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Sartre summarizes the plot in the program notes of the play: "A family of big German industrialists, the von Gerlachs, live near Hamburg in an ugly old mansion in the middle of a park. When the curtain rises, the father, who has only six months to live, calls together his daughter Leni, his younger son Werner, and Werner's wife Johanna, in order to inform them of his last wishes. Johanna guesses that, after the father's death, her husband will be...
18) Poésies
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Collection Soleil) volume 28
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Extrait : "Le vierge, le vivace et le bel aujourd'hui Va-t-il nous déchirer avec un coup d'aile ivre Ce lac dur oublié que hante sous le givre Le transparent glacier des vols qui n'ont pas fui ! Un cygne d'autrefois se souvient que c'est lui Magnifique mais qui sans espoir se délivre Pour n'avoir pas chanté la région o vivre Quand du stérile hiver a resplendi l'ennui."