The Just Assassins by Albert Camus (Book Analysis)

This practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of The Just Assassins by Albert Camus. It provides a thorough exploration of the play’s plot, characters and main themes, including murder, politics and activism. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time.

This clear and detailed 24-page reading guide is structured as follows:

• Biography of Albert Camus
• Presentation of The Just Assassins
• Summary of The Just Assassins
• Character study
  • Yanek Kaliayev
  • Stepan Fedorov
  • Dora Doubledov
  • Boris Annenkov
  • Alexis Voinov
• Analysis of The Just Assassins
  • The importance of the context
  • Two different notions of action
  • A vision of political murder

About The Just Assassins

The Just Assassins is a play in five acts which was first was first performed in 1949. It tells the story of the preparation of an attack against the Grand Duke of Russia. Engagement is therefore at the heart of the play.

It is a part of Camus’ “Cycle of Revolt”, following The Plague and succeeded by The Rebel. Camus based the play on a similar event which took place during the Russian Revolution.

About Albert Camus

Albert Camus was an Algerian-born French writer, dramatist, essayist and philosopher. He is known in particular for his philosophical reflections on the Absurd and for his profound commitment to individual freedom, which he expressed in his writing and which were very influential during his time. He took part in the French Resistance during the Second World War, and continued to write until his premature death in a car accident in 1960, at the age of 46.

Camus was one of the major writers of the 20^th century, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957. Many of his works are now considered modern classics, in particular his novels The Plague and The Outsider.