Exile and Kingdom
About This Novel
Camus's mature work after winning the Nobel Prize deeply explores "spiritual exile" and "soul destination", and directly attacks the spiritual dilemma of modern people. Classic translation by Liu Senyao. Specially included is the translator's preface, which provides an in-depth explanation of the creative background and is a key to a deeper understanding of Camus's literary world and existential philosophical vision. This book was the last work published by Camus during his lifetime, and he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in the same year. This collection of short stories contains six stories set in Europe, Africa, and South America and vary in style from symbolic to realistic to interior monologue. Each story focuses on an exiled character who is struggling in the vastness of nothingness or a strange foreign land, searching for an outlet for freedom and life between reality and hope. Through six stories, this book depicts lonely lives in different situations: women trapped in formal marriages, workers frustrated by capitalists, lonely humanitarians, seemingly smooth artists, self-exiled engineers... Everyone deviates from the secular track, but finds some kind of self-belonging in the wrong path - even if that belonging is still not understood by ordinary people.
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