Name: A Happy Death
Rating: 3.928571428571428 (28 reviews)

Albert Camus

A young man searches throughout life for the key to confronting death without fear.

A Happy Death

In many ways this work can be seen as a first sketch for Camus's renowned early novel, The Outsider, but it can also be viewed as a candid self-portrait, drawing on Camus's memories of his youth, travels and early relationships.

Camus does such an amazing job at capturing the melancholy feeling of life but yet the innate, human desire to embrace it for the sake of embracing it

Abigail Marie

Meriem💫

The French author reveals his feelings of alienation in this novel about a young man's search for the key to facing death without fear

jam 🍯

I think the parts that were the hardest for me to read were the ones in which I disagreed with the protagonist's theories and opinions. But by the end I was tearing through the book, trying to discern meaning behind a book that focuses on just being.

A Happy Death

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