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The Fiction of Albert Camus: A Complex Simplicity
Contributor(s): Longstaffe, Moya (Author), Collier, Peter (Editor)

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 ISBN: 0820472298     ISBN-13: 9780820472294
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
OUR PRICE: $65.50  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: August 2007
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | European - French
Dewey: 813
LCCN: 2007416390
Series: Modern French Identities
Physical Information: 300 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - French
Features: Bibliography, Index
Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2008 pg. 250
 
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Publisher Description:
This book takes a fresh look at the novels and short stories of Albert Camus, from his early attempt at a first novel, La Mort heureuse, to the largely autobiographical Le Premier homme, unfinished at the time of his death. It seeks to see the oeuvre as a totality, coherent throughout, and examines the linkages and transformations from one work to the next, in the context of Camus's thought, attitudes and topoi or themes. The development of narrative techniques is examined, ranging from laconism to lyricism, from allegorism to realism, from humour to biting satire. The author traces the influence on Camus's thought of philosophers and thinkers as diverse as Nietzsche and the pre-Socratics on the one hand, and St Augustine, Pascal, and Simone Weil on the other, and considers the circularity of his work, from the early preoccupation with the finality of death and the search for meaning to the return to the origin and source in Le Premier homme. The enduring appeal of Camus's work is attributed to its humane openness and its challenges for our time.
 
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