The first man
The first person ( French Le premier homme ) is an unfinished novel published posthumously in 1994 by the Algerian-French writer and philosopher Albert Camus .
content
At the center of the completed parts of the text is the search for identity of the French Algerian Jacques Cormery , which he would like to cope with by reconstructing his family history and his own childhood spent in the colony. The memories told in this way in the novel have strong parallels to Camus' own biography. Not least because of this, the text has often been interpreted biographically. However, postcolonial and existential philosophical interpretations are also plausible.
backgrounds
The unfinished manuscript for the novel was found in 1960 at the site of Albert Camus' fatal car accident. His daughter Catherine Camus had long refused to publish the fragment, not least because of the strongly autobiographical character of the text, which might have been reduced in the final version.
media
The Algerian actor Jean-Paul Schintu presented his interpretation of the text at the Avignon Festival in 2013 .
expenditure
- The first person , German, translated by Uli Aumüller . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-499-23187-5 .
- Le premier homme , French. Gallimard, Paris 1999, ISBN 978-2070738274 .
Secondary literature
- Klaus Bahners: Explanations on Albert Camus: The first person . King's Explanations and Materials (Vol. 399). Bange, Hollfeld 2000, ISBN 978-3-8044-1669-7 .
Web links
- The first person , with Dieter Wunderlich
Individual evidence
- ^ Le Premier Homme , Adaptation et interprétation Jean-Paul Schintu, at the Avignon Festival