Albert Camus’ Noces, first published in 1938 in a stand-alone edition of four short prose texts, continued to occupy its author for most of his remaining years. Camus added another eight texts in the years to 1953, and the resulting set of texts was published by Gallimard as Noces, suivies par l’été in 1958. While the first four texts are thus the work of a very young emerging author, the last of the collection was written by an author of then already considerable fame, having published both of his best-known novels, L‘étranger (1942) and La peste (1947), as well as major philosophical texts he is known for.
The resulting volume thus includes a reinterpretation and a framing of earlier work. It is an effort to both reconsider and salvage this early work, developing a consistent framework for determining his place in the world.
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