Les Justes
Book Details
| Title: | Les Justes | ||||||||
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| Published: | 1950 | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Gallimard | ||||||||
| Language: | French | ||||||||
| Tags: | drama, fiction | ||||||||
| Description: | À Moscou, en 1905, un groupe de socialistes révolutionnaires projette d'assassiner le grand-duc Serge, qui gouverne la ville en despote, afin de lutter contre la tyrannie exercée sur eux. Kaliayev, un jeune terroriste, lancera la bombe. Dora restera en arrière, mais c'est elle qui a fabriqué les bombes servant à l'attentat. Dora et Kaliayev sont amants. Kaliayev est emprisonné, la grande-duchesse Élisabeth lui propose d'être gracié, il refuse et il est pendu. Dora, à la fin, s'apprête à faire le prochain attentat et peut ainsi rejoindre Kaliayev.--Goodreads.com. [Suggest a different description.] |
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| Downloads: | 3,310 | ||||||||
| Pages: | 99  |
Author Bio for Camus, Albert
Albert Camus (7 November, 1913—4 January 1960) was a French-Algerian author, journalist, and playwright best known for his absurdist works The Stranger (1942) and The Plague (1947). He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957 at the age of 43, the second youngest recipient in history.
Born in Mondavi, French Algeria, Camus did well in school and was admitted to the University of Algiers where he studied philosophy and played goalie for the soccer team. He quit the team following a bout of tuberculosis in 1930, thereafter focusing on academic study. By 1936, he had obtained undergraduate and graduate degrees in philosophy. He became political during his student years, joining first the Communist Party and then the Algerian People's Party. As a champion of individual rights, he opposed French colonization and argued for the empowerment of Algerians in politics and labor. Camus would later be associated with the French anarchist movement. He was one of the few Allied journalists to condemn the American use of the...
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