A Happy Death

Synopsis

The first novel from the nobel prize-winning author lays the foundation for the stranger, telling the story of an algerian clerk who kills a man in cold blood. In a happy death, written when albert camus was in his early twenties and retrieved from his private papers following his death in 1960, revealed himself to an extent that he never would in his later fiction. For if a happy death is the study of a rule-bound being shattering the fetters of his existence, it is also a remarkably candid portrait of its author as a young man.