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Exile and the Kingdom
by Albert Camus
A bit difficult to make out what is meant by 'Exile' except precisely Golgotha. It could be said, and not without cause, that Camus writes more on the Christian subject than even O'Connor. Typical for the eminently "competent" author, these stories are appropriate work for translation (cannibalization) in your high school classroom.
Ready, and expecting six "psychological investigations" in monologue, I was pleasantly surprised to discovery that such endeavors, while still present, have gone incognito in the text. These conversations persist in the implied space between actions for the most part - a refreshing approach. Unfortunately, the substance of what he's working with is also abridged, and the best stories here are the ones he leaves be (The Growing Stone, The Adulterous Woman). Where the dialectic emerges closest to the surface we have the more accessible narratives, and also the worst (The Artist at Work, The Renegade). An ostensibly worse version of The Guest, the skimpy and hastily-constructed The Silent Men is a guilty pleasure for how he makes duty bitter.
Ready, and expecting six "psychological investigations" in monologue, I was pleasantly surprised to discovery that such endeavors, while still present, have gone incognito in the text. These conversations persist in the implied space between actions for the most part - a refreshing approach. Unfortunately, the substance of what he's working with is also abridged, and the best stories here are the ones he leaves be (The Growing Stone, The Adulterous Woman). Where the dialectic emerges closest to the surface we have the more accessible narratives, and also the worst (The Artist at Work, The Renegade). An ostensibly worse version of The Guest, the skimpy and hastily-constructed The Silent Men is a guilty pleasure for how he makes duty bitter.