Les justes

1970150 pagesGallimard

In 1905 Moscow, a group of socialist revolutionaries plots to assassinate the Grand Duke. Their mission is complicated by a moral dilemma when the target is seen with his young niece and nephew, forcing the group to confront the human cost of their ideals. This play explores profound questions of justice, sacrifice, and the justification of violence in the pursuit of a greater cause.

Avg. reading time: 2h 50m
Prose complexity: 7/10

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Albert Camus

Albert Camus was a French Algerian author, philosopher, and journalist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. He was a key philosopher of the 20th-century and his most famous work is the novel L'Étranger (The Stranger). In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement, which was a group opposed to some tendencies of the surrealistic movement of André Breton. Camus was the second-youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize for L...