by Albert Camus · Folio · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070401017
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«Le Premier Homme» is the autobiographical novel by Albert Camus, published by Folio in paperback (380 pages, in French).
An unfinished work, it recounts the childhood of Jacques Cormery in colonial Algeria, with clear echoes of Camus's own life. The manuscript, found after his death, explores memory, identity and family roots, and is completed with a notebook of the author's notes and plans and an exchange of letters with Louis Germain.
Published posthumously in 1994; this paperback edition from the Folio collection (no. 3320) dates from 2000 and includes an appendix with the author's notes and plans and an exchange of letters with Louis Germain.
For readers of French literature and admirers of Albert Camus interested in the author's more intimate and autobiographical side.
Albert Camus was a French philosopher, writer, and political activist. He was the recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in history, and the first laureate in literature born in Africa. His works include The Stranger, The Plague, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Fall and The Rebel.
