Albert Camus, elements of a life / Robert Zaretsky.
2010
PQ2605.A3734 Z97 2010 (Mapit)
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Title
Albert Camus, elements of a life / Robert Zaretsky.
Author
Zaretsky, Robert, 1955-
ISBN
9780801448058 (alk. paper)
0801448050 (alk. paper)
0801448050 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010.
Language
English
Description
x, 181 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Call Number
PQ2605.A3734 Z97 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
848/.91409
Summary
"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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Regarding Camus
1939, from County Mayo to Kabylia
1945, a moralist on the barricades
1952, French tragedies
1956, silence follows.
1939, from County Mayo to Kabylia
1945, a moralist on the barricades
1952, French tragedies
1956, silence follows.