Albert Camus (Critical Lives) - Softcover

Hughes, Mr Edward J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1780234937 ISBN 13: 9781780234939

Verlag: Reaktion Books, 2015

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"Though a latecomer to this literary and political tempest, Hughes's short book is nevertheless a welcome arrival. . . . Hughes has written a concise and cogent account of Camus's life and writings. Unlike many of his biographers, Hughes maintains an admirable critical distance from his subject. With his even language, his balanced summaries and mostly fair analyses, he avoids the appearance of parti pris. . . . The territory Hughes covers is well travelled, yet he brings to light telling details and offers readings missed by many other biographers. . . . Clearly written and well researched, Hughes's book offers a solid introduction to Camus's life and work."--Times Literary Supplement "Drawing extensively on correspondence, interviews, notebooks, news articles, and biographies, Hughes traces Camus's life in detail, from his working-class upbringing in colonial Algeria through his rise to celebrity and untimely death. . . . Those looking for a brief yet comprehensive biography will be pleased." --Choice

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One of France's most high-profile writers, Albert Camus experienced both public adulation and acrimonious rejection in a career cut short by a fatal car accident in 1960. From humble origins in a European family living in colonial Algeria, Camus established himself as a successful novelist, with best-selling titles such as The Outsider and The Plague coming to be translated into scores of languages and earning him a reputation as a figure who captured the mood of the age. It was a world dominated, he reflected ruefully, by war and violence. The Liberation of France towards the end of the Second World War saw him emerge as one of the country's most prominent journalists at the newspaper Combat. But his subsequent position-taking on the Cold War in which, not unlike Orwell, he distanced himself from those sympathetic to the Soviet Union left him adrift from many on the Left in post-war metropolitan France. The worsening conflict in his native Algeria in the mid to late 1950s accentuated his sense of alienation as voices within France increasingly called into question the country's role in North Africa. Camus reflected on 'all the errors, contradictions and hesitations' that had marked his involvement with Algeria but he remained viscerally linked to the place of his birth. Edward J. Hughes analyses the life of an author whose work and position-taking were the subject of both intense interest and scrutiny. 'I do not guide anyone', he was to plead in his last interview, thereby reinforcing the paradox of a leading figure who in private wrestled with the challenge of pursuing his craft as a writer in an age of pressing ideological conflict.

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• Verlag: Reaktion Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1780234937
• ISBN 13: 9781780234939
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224