Réflexions sur la peine capitale

*Réflexions sur la peine capitale*
Author	Albert Camus and Arthur Koestler
Language	French
Publisher	Calmann-Lévy
Publication date	1957
Publication place	France
Pages	245

AuthorAlbert Camus and Arthur Koestler

LanguageFrench

PublisherCalmann-Lévy

Publication date

1957

Réflexions sur la peine capitale is an essay on the death penalty written before its abolition in France. It was co-signed by two writers, Albert Camus and Arthur Kœstler. The essay delves into the human condition from an existentialist perspective.^[1]

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v t e Albert Camus (works)
Novels	The Stranger The Plague The Fall A Happy Death The First Man
Short stories	Exile and the Kingdom "The Adulterous Woman" "The Renegade" "The Silent Men" "The Guest" "The Artist at Work" "The Growing Stone"
Plays	Caligula The Misunderstanding The State of Siege The Just Assassins The Possessed Requiem for a Nun
Essays	The Myth of Sisyphus The Rebel "Reflections on the Guillotine" Resistance, Rebellion, and Death
Non-fiction	Christian Metaphysics and Neoplatonism Betwixt and Between Neither Victims nor Executioners Notebooks 1935–1942 Notebooks 1942–1951 Notebooks 1951–1959 Nuptials Correspondance (1944-1959) Algerian Chronicles American Journals
Related	Francine Faure (second wife)

v t e Arthur Koestler
Novels	The Gladiators Darkness at Noon Arrival and Departure Thieves in the Night The Call-Girls
Nonfiction	The Encyclopœdia of Sexual Knowledge The Yogi and the Commissar The Sleepwalkers The Lotus and the Robot The Act of Creation The Ghost in the Machine The Roots of Coincidence The Heel of Achilles: Essays 1968–1973 The Thirteenth Tribe Janus: A Summing Up
Autobiography	Spanish Testament Scum of the Earth Dialogue with Death The God that Failed Arrow in the Blue The Invisible Writing Stranger on the Square
Related articles	Arthur Koestler (book) Koestler Arts Living with Koestler: Mamaine Koestler's Letters 1945–51 Arthur Koestler: The Story of a Friendship

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