LEADER 04408nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910811125003321 005 20240416111936.0 010 $a0-8014-6237-1 010 $a0-8014-6029-8 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801460296 035 $a(CKB)2670000000078975 035 $a(OCoLC)726824221 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10457584 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000482642 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11308150 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000482642 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10526804 035 $a(PQKB)10989720 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3137963 035 $a(OCoLC)1016818898 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse58341 035 $a(DE-B1597)481715 035 $a(OCoLC)987921068 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801460296 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3137963 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10457584 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000078975 100 $a20090821d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAlbert Camus, elements of a life /$fRobert Zaretsky 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (193 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-8014-7907-X 311 0 $a0-8014-4805-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tREGARDING CAMUS --$t1939: FROM COUNTY MAYO TO KABYLIA --$t1945: A MORALIST ON THE BARRICADES --$t1952: FRENCH TRAGEDIES --$t1956: SILENCE FOLLOWS --$tEPILOGUE --$tNOTES --$tINDEX 330 $a"Like many others of my generation, I first read Camus in high school. I carried him in my backpack while traveling across Europe, I carried him into (and out of) relationships, and I carried him into (and out of) difficult periods of my life. More recently, I have carried him into university classes that I have taught, coming out of them with a renewed appreciation of his art. To be sure, my idea of Camus thirty years ago scarcely resembles my idea of him today. While my admiration and attachment to his writings remain as great as they were long ago, the reasons are more complicated and critical."-Robert Zaretsky On October 16, 1957, Albert Camus was dining in a small restaurant on Paris's Left Bank when a waiter approached him with news: the radio had just announced that Camus had won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Camus insisted that a mistake had been made and that others were far more deserving of the honor than he. Yet Camus was already recognized around the world as the voice of a generation-a status he had achieved with dizzying speed. He published his first novel, The Stranger, in 1942 and emerged from the war as the spokesperson for the Resistance and, although he consistently rejected the label, for existentialism. Subsequent works of fiction (including the novels The Plague and The Fall), philosophy (notably, The Myth of Sisyphus and The Rebel), drama, and social criticism secured his literary and intellectual reputation. And then on January 4, 1960, three years after accepting the Nobel Prize, he was killed in a car accident. In a book distinguished by clarity and passion, 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. Both engaged and engaging, Albert Camus: Elements of a Life is a searching companion to a profoundly moral and lucid writer whose works provide a guide for those perplexed by the absurdity of the human condition and the world's resistance to meaning. 606 $aFrench literature 615 0$aFrench literature. 676 $a848/.91409 700 $aZaretsky$b Robert$f1955-$01245043 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811125003321 996 $aAlbert Camus, elements of a life$93933884 997 $aUNINA