Albert Camus, elements of a life

"Robert Zaretsky considers why Albert Camus mattered in his own lifetime and continues to matter today, focusing on key moments that shaped Camus's development as a writer, a public intellectual, and a man. Each chapter is devoted to a specific event: Camus's visit to Kabylia in 1939 to report on th...

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Main Author: Zaretsky, Robert, 1955-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010.
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245 1 0 |a Albert Camus, elements of a life /  |c Robert Zaretsky. 
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300 |a x, 181 pages :  |b illustrations ;  |c 23 cm 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-175) and index. 
505 0 |a Regarding Camus -- 1939, from County Mayo to Kabylia -- 1945, a moralist on the barricades -- 1952, French tragedies -- 1956, silence follows. 
520 |a "Robert Zaretsky considers why Albert Camus mattered in his own lifetime and continues to matter today, focusing on key moments that shaped Camus's development as a writer, a public intellectual, and a man. Each chapter is devoted to a specific event: Camus's visit to Kabylia in 1939 to report on the conditions of the local Berber tribes; his decision in 1945 to sign a petition to commute the death sentence of collaborationist writer Robert Brasillach; his famous quarrel with Jean-Paul Sartre in 1952 over the nature of communism; and his silence about the war in Algeria in 1956"--Jacket. 
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