@article{351635, author = {Zaretsky, Robert,}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/351635}, title = {Albert Camus, elements of a life /}, publisher = {Cornell University Press,}, abstract = {"Robert Zaretsky considers why Albert Camus mattered in his own lifetime and continues to matter today, focusing on key moments that shaped Camus's development as a writer, a public intellectual, and a man. Each chapter is devoted to a specific event: Camus's visit to Kabylia in 1939 to report on the conditions of the local Berber tribes; his decision in 1945 to sign a petition to commute the death sentence of collaborationist writer Robert Brasillach; his famous quarrel with Jean-Paul Sartre in 1952 over the nature of communism; and his silence about the war in Algeria in 1956."--Dust jacket.}, recid = {351635}, pages = {x, 181 p. :}, address = {Ithaca :}, year = {2010}, }