Ebook: Albert Camus
Author: Edward J. Hughes
- Tags: Camus Albert -1913-1960., Camus Albert -1913-1960.-fast-(OCoLC)fst00036855, Authors French-20th century-Biography., Authors Algerian-20th century-Biography., Authors Algerian.-fast-(OCoLC)fst00821762, Authors French.-fast-(OCoLC)fst00822016
- Series: Critical Lives Ser.
- Year: 2015
- Publisher: Reaktion Books
- City: London, United Kingdom
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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Winner of the Franco-British Society Literary Prize 2015 Few figures of twentieth-century French culture carry such an air of romance and intrigue as Albert Camus. Though his life was cut short by a fatal car accident in 1960, when he was just forty-six years old, he packed those years with an incredible amount of experience and accomplishment. This new entry in the Critical Lives series offers a fresh look at Camus' life and work, from his best-selling novels like The Stranger to his complicated political engagement in a postwar world of intensifying ideological conflict. Edward Hughes offers a particularly nuanced exploration of Camus' relationship to his native Algeria--a connection whose strength would be tested in the 1950s as France's conflict with the anticolonial movement there became increasingly violent and untenable. Ultimately, the picture Hughes offers is of a man whose commitment to ideas and truth reigned supreme, whether in his fiction, journalism, or political activity, a commitment that has led the man who disclaimed leadership--"I do not guide anyone," he once pleaded--to nonetheless be seen as a powerful figure and ethical force.
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