Chamberlin Free Public Library Catalog

The first man /

Camus, Albert, 1913-1960.

The first man / - New York : Knopf, 1995. - viii, 325 p. ; 19 cm.

A fictionalized autobiography, covering his youth in Algeria. It is filled with details of the white working class to which he belonged and there is the undercurrent of a boy's search for a father figure, his own killed in World War I. He describes the intervention of a school teacher who obtained for him a scholarship, first step on the road to the 1957 Nobel Prize for literature.

0679439374

95002668


Children--Fiction.
Fatherless families--Fiction.


Algeria--Fiction.


Domestic fiction.

PQ2605.A3734 / P7413 1995

843/.914