{"product_id":"speaking-out-lectures-and-speeches-1937-1958-9780525567233","title":"Speaking Out: Lectures and Speeches, 1937-1958","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe Nobel Prize winner's most influential and enduring lectures and speeches, newly translated by Quintin Hoare, in what is the first English language publication of this collection. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlbert Camus (1913-1960) is unsurpassed among writers for a body of work that animates the wonder and absurdity of existence. \u003ci\u003eSpeaking Out: Lectures and Speeches, 1938-1958\u003c\/i\u003e brings together, for the first time, thirty-four public statements from across Camus's career that reveal his radical commitment to justice around the world and his role as a public intellectual. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom his 1946 lecture at Columbia University about humanity's moral decline, his 1951 BBC broadcast commenting on Britain's general election, and his strident appeal during the Algerian conflict for a civilian truce between Algeria and France, to his speeches on Dostoevsky and \u003ci\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/i\u003e, this crucial new collection reflects the scope of Camus's political and cultural influence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn in Algeria in 1913, ALBERT CAMUS published \u003ci\u003eThe Stranger\u003c\/i\u003e--now one of the most widely read novels of this century--in 1942. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957. On January 4, 1960, he was killed in a car accident. QUINTIN HOARE is an award-winning translator. His translations from French have included works by Sartre (for whose \u003ci\u003eWar Diaries\u003c\/i\u003e he won the Scott-Moncrieff Prize), Simone de Beauvoir, Paul Nizan, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50512144105746,"sku":"9780525567233","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c3911554-3330-4caf-9b44-f2de93e03eca.jpg?v=1730949546","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/speaking-out-lectures-and-speeches-1937-1958-9780525567233","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}