Looking for the stranger
Subtitle: Albert Camus and the life of a literary classic
By: Alice Kaplan
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9780226241678
Subjects: Philosophers; Appreciation; French Authors; Biography
Description: "A National Book Award-finalist biographer tells the story of how a young man in his 20s who had never written a novel turned out a masterpiece that still grips readers more than 70 years later and is considered a rite of passage for readers around the world,"--NoveList.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: A bonfire; title: From Belcourt to Hydra; title: A first try; title: The novel he didn't know he was writing; title: A reporter on the beat; title: Any person condemned to death shall have his head cut off; title: The absurd; title: A first chapter; title: What he carried; title: Writing part I; title: Already traced within me; title: Exodus; title: Rue d'Arzew; title: A jealous teacher and a generous comrade; title: Resolve; title: The Malraux factor; title: A reader's report; title: Gallimard's war; title: The stranger is born; title: Recovery; title: From the absurd to revolt; title: Above ground; title: Existentialist twins; title: Consecration in New York; title: A book for everyone; title: What's in a name?; title: Epilogue: l'écho d'Oran.