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Genre/Form: | Biographies Biography |
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Named Person: | Albert Camus |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Edward J Hughes |
ISBN: | 9781780234939 1780234937 |
OCLC Number: | 961459725 |
Description: | 215 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm |
Contents: | Literacy, or 'the regular rows of the lines' -- 'True love ... awkward pages' -- 'This Algiers happiness' -- All work and no play -- A beautiful profession -- A tale of two outsiders -- 'All man's misery ... ' -- Combat and the narrative of liberation -- 'A catastrophe slow to happen' -- Wars of words continued -- Beyond polemic: 'From now on, creation' -- Staging confession -- Stockholm and the backdrop to fame -- 1958 -- Cohabiting with oneself -- A contested legacy |
Series Title: | Critical lives (London, England) |
Responsibility: | Edward J. Hughes |
Abstract:
One of France's most high-profile writers and a Nobel Prize-winner, Albert Camus experienced both public adulation and acrimonious rejection during his career, which was cut short by a fatal car accident in 1960. Edward J. Hughes unravels the life of a complex personality whose work and stance were the subjects of intense interest and scrutiny.
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