第一人 (1994)

《第一人》 (法语：Le Premier homme)是法国作家阿尔贝·卡缪未完成的最后一部小说。

1960年1月4日，46岁的卡缪死于一场车祸。在事故现场的泥浆中，发现了《第一人》的不完整手稿。卡缪的女儿凯瑟琳·卡缪在1994年将手稿出版。卡缪本人认为这会是他的杰作，一些评论家也这样认为，即使尚未完成。

情节

小说描写主人公雅克·科尔梅里早年在阿尔及尔，从出生到上中学的岁月。与早期作品的哲学分量不同，加缪的这部小说关注童年、上学、太阳和大海的力量、儿子对母亲痛苦的爱，寻找失散的父亲。同时也是关于殖民地人民在辽阔但并非总是好客的非洲的历史，关于母国与其殖民者的复杂关系，以及战争和政治革命的影响。

人物

雅克·科尔梅里 – 主人公，在贫穷的家庭长大。

凯瑟琳·科尔梅里 – 雅克深爱的母亲，文盲，而且耳聋。

The First Man (French: Le Premier homme) is Albert Camus' unfinished final novel.

On January 4, 1960, at the age of forty-six, Camus died in a car accident. The incomplete manuscript of The First Man, the autobiographical novel Camus was working on at the time of his death, was found in the mud at the accident site. Camus' daughter, Catherine Camus, later transcribed the handwritten manuscript to type press, and published the book in 1994. Camus hoped that it would be his masterpiece and some critics agreed with his view, even in its unfinished state – largely citing the physical intensity and uninhibited psychology of boyhood as removed from the reservedness of Camus' other novels.

Plot summary

The novel takes Jacques Cormery from birth to his years in the lycée, or secondary school, in Algiers. In a departure from the intellectual and philosophical weight of his earlier works, Camus wanted this novel to be "heavy with things and flesh." It is a novel of basic and essential things: childhood, schooldays, the life of the body, the power of the sun and the sea, the painful love of a son for his mother, the search for a lost father. But it is also about the history of a colonial people in a vast and not always hospitable African landscape, about the complex relationship of a "mother" country to its colonists, and about the intimate effects of war as well as political revolution.

Characters

Jacques Cormery – The main protagonist. He is raised in a poor home.

Catherine Cormery – Jacques's mother, who is "illiterate and largely deaf." Jacques loves her and visits her in his adulthood.

Pierre – Jacques's childhood friend who completes primary school and lycée by Jacques's side.

Film adaptation

A film adaptation of the novel, directed by Gianni Amelio and starring Jacques Gamblin, was released in 2011.