by Albert Camus · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788472238312
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«El primer hombre» is the autobiographical novel by Albert Camus, published by Tusquets Editores S.A. in paperback (304 pages, in Spanish).
Jacques Cormery, a boy born in Algiers, grows up in a poor neighbourhood without knowing his father, who died in the First World War. Between an illiterate mother and a stern grandmother, the boy discovers reading and builds himself; the novel is a portrait of Albert Camus's childhood and of the Algeria of the time.
Translation by Aurora Bernárdez. Volume 228 of the Andanzas collection. Published posthumously in 1994, its original title is «Le premier homme».
For readers of contemporary fiction and for those who want to delve into the figure of Albert Camus and his Algerian childhood.
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.
