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The Originality and Complexity of Albert Camus’s Writings

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  • © 2012

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  1. Emmanuelle Anne Vanborre
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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Editor’s Introduction

    1. Editor’s Introduction

      • Emmanuelle Anne Vanborre
      Pages 1-4

  3. Literary Considerations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
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    2. Camus, the Nouveau Roman, and the Postmodern

      • Edmund J. Smyth
      Pages 7-17

    3. The Complexity and Modernity of The Plague

      • Aurélie Palud
      Pages 19-33

    4. Albert Camus’s The Fall

      • Emmanuelle Anne Vanborre
      Pages 35-49

  4. Philosophical and Political Reflections

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-51
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    2. Camus’s Unbeknownst Legacy: Or, “I’m Having an Existential Crisis!”

      • Michael Y. Bennett
      Pages 53-62

    3. Sisyphean (Out)rage and the refusal to Mourn

      • Matthew H. Bowker
      Pages 63-77

    4. Albert Camus’s Warring Twentieth Century

      • Araceli Hernández Laroche
      Pages 79-91

  5. Evolution and Influences

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93
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    2. Prison, Plague, and Piety

      • Jennifer Stafford Brown
      Pages 95-109

    3. Summer by Albert Camus

      • Mamadou Abdoulaye Ly
      Pages 111-124

    4. Affliction, revolt, and Love

      • Sophie Bourgault
      Pages 125-142

    5. Tormented Shade

      • Thomas Epstein
      Pages 143-159

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 161-174
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About this book

Fifty years after Camus's untimely death, his work still has a tremendous impact on literature. From a twenty-first century vantage point, he offers us coexisting ideas and principles by which we can read and understand the other and ourselves. Yet Camus seems to guide us without directing us strictly; his fictions do not offer clear-cut solutions or doctrines to follow. This complexity is what demands that the oeuvre be read, and reread. The wide-ranging articles in this volume shed light, concentrate on the original aspects of Camus' writings, and explore how and why they are still relevant for us today.

About the authors

MICHAEL Y. BENNETT University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA MATTHEW H. BOWKER Medaille College, USA JENNIFER STAFFORD BROWN Whitworth University, USA THOMAS EPSTEIN Boston College, USA ARACELI HERNÁNDEZ-LAROCHE Georgian Court University, USA MAMADOU ABDOULAYE LY Mary Immaculate College, Ireland AURÉLIE PALUD University of Rennes, France EDMUND J. SMYTH Manchester Metropolitan University, UK 

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