The Rebel by Albert Camus

The Rebel by Albert CamusThe Rebel looks at artistic and political rebels throughout history, from Epicurus to the Marquis de Sade. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is translated by Anthony Bower with an introduction by Oliver Todd. The Rebel is Camus' 'attempt to understand the time I live in' and a brilliant essay on the nature of human revolt. Published in 1951, it makes a daring critique of communism how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain and the resulting

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But having grown up in the same small town that was consumed by the murder

Caught between the rigorous societal norms

are the stories of other Muslim women - women who are struggling with human rights abuses from across the region - from Pakistan

So we get stuck in anxiety habit loops that we can't think our way out of or use willpower to overcome

And the secret files

our permanently pilled-up protagonist

with such poems as 'Ode to a Nightingale'

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a miscarriage of justice

He was 'discovered' on an Indian beach at the age of 14 and

An elemental part of Chinese culture