The Cambridge companion to Camus
By: edited by Edward J. Hughes.
Contributors: Hughes, Edward J. 1953-
Series: Cambridge companions to; Cambridge companions to literature
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780521840484; 9780521549783
Subjects: Camus, Albert, -- 1913-1960 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Camus, Albert, -- 1913-1960 -- Philosophy.
Other titles: Companion to Camus; Camus
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-219) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Edward J. Hughes; title: Biography and influences: Camus : a life lived in critical times / Ieme Van Der Poel. Situating Camus : the formative influences / Toby Garfitt. Autobiographical soundings in L'envers et l'endroit / Edward J. Hughes; title: Themes, preoccupations and genres: Rethinking the absurd : Le mythe de Sisyphe / David Carroll. Camus and the theatre / Christine Margerrison. Camus the journalist / Jeanyves Guerin. Camus and social justice / Martin Crowley. Violence and ethics in Camus / Colin Davis. Camus and Sartre : the great quarrel / Charles Forsdick. Portraits of women, visions of Algeria / Danielle Marx-Scouras; title: Texts and contexts: From Noces to L'etranger / Peter Dunwoodie. Layers of meaning in La peste / Margaret E. Gray. Withheld identity in La chute / David R. Ellison. Le premier homme and the literature of loss / Debra Kelly; title: Postface / Edward J. Hughes.