'To create today is to create dangerously' Camus argues passionately that the artist has a responsibility to challenge; provoke and speak up for those who cannot in this powerful speech; accompanied here by two others. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series; with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary; international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin; Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan; New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.