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  ‘Man cannot do without beauty’

  Albert Camus

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  The First Man

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  ‘The Sea Close By’ first published in L’Été (Summer) 1954

  Copyright © 1954 by Editions Gallimard

  Translation copyright © 1967 by Hamish Hamilton Ltd and Alfred A. Knopf Ltd.

  ‘Summer in Algiers’ first published in Noces (Nuptials) 1938

  Translation copyright © Justin O’Brien 1955

  This combined edition published in Penguin Classics 2013

  Cover art by Alice Charbin

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  Typeset by Jouve (UK), Milton Keynes

  ISBN: 978-0-141-97801-7

  * May I take the ridiculous position of saying that I do not like the way Gide exalts the body? He asks it to restrain its desire to make it keener. Thus he comes dangerously near to those who in brothel-slang are called involved or brainworkers. Christianity also wants to suspend desire. But, more natural, it sees a mortification in this. My friend, Vincent, who is a cooper and junior breast-stroke champion, has an even clearer view. He drinks when he is thirsty, if he desires a woman tries to go to bed with her, and would marry her if he loved her (this hasn’t yet happened). Afterwards he always says: ‘I feel better’ – and this sums up vigorously any apology that might be made for satiety.

 

 

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