# The Rebel

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- Book: [The Rebel](https://www.bookquiver.com/albert-camus/the-rebel) ([The Rebel.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/albert-camus/the-rebel.md))
- Authors: [Albert Camus](https://www.bookquiver.com/albert-camus)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4191-410-7
- Published: 2013-10-31
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

The Rebel is Camus's '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 totalitarian regimes. It questions two events held sacred by the left wing - the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian Revolution of 1917 - that had resulted, he believed, in terrorism as a political instrument. In this towering intellectual document, Camus argues that hope for the future lies in revolt, which unlike revolution is a spontaneous response to injustice and a chance to achieve change without giving up collective and intellectual freedom.