Albert Camus, The stranger / / Patrick McCarthy

• Autore: McCarthy Patrick <1941->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, UK ; ; New York, NY, : Cambridge University Press, 2004
• Edizione: 2nd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 109 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 843/.914
• Soggetto topico: French literature
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Chronology; Chapter 1 Contexts; Chapter 2 The Stranger; Chapter 3 Early Camus and Sartre; Chapter 4 Camus and the Algerian war; Chapter 5 Why and how we read The Stranger: a guide to further reading
• Sommario/riassunto: This handy guide places Albert Camus' The Stranger, one of the seminal texts of existentialism and twentieth-century literature in general, in the context of French and French-Algerian history and culture. In it, Patrick McCarthy examines the way the work undermines traditional concepts of fiction. In addition, he explores the parallels and the contrasts between Albert Camus's work and that of Jean-Paul Sartre. Overall, this account provides students with a useful companion to The Stranger. This second edition boasts a revised guide to further reading and a new chapter on Camus and the Algerian War.
• Altri titoli varianti: Camus, The stranger
• Titolo autorizzato: Albert Camus, The stranger
• ISBN: 1-107-14868-5; 1-283-32918-2; 0-511-16554-4; 9786613329189; 0-511-80306-0; 0-511-16633-8; 0-511-16440-8; 0-511-56668-9; 0-511-16520-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910806104903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Landmarks of world literature.