Introducing Camus - Softcover

Mairowitz, David Zane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1840468475 ISBN 13: 9781840468472

Publisher: Icon Books, 2007

Synopsis

Albert Camus, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, always refused the existentialist label with which he is usually associated. For Camus, the world was 'absurd', without purpose, leading only unto death, yet all the more invigorating precisely because of this. Long associated with Left-Bank intellectuals, Camus' real emotional centre was always his native Algeria and the poverty of his youth. This has become even clearer with the publication of his posthumous novel "The First Man", which has catapulted Camus back into the public eye after years of excommunication by the Left for his 'un-radical' views during the Algerian war. "Introducing Camus" portrays a man who was an intellectual in the tradition of the great French humanists, a Resistance fighter during World War II, and also a great sensualist for whom sun, sea, sex, football and theatre were the answer to life's absurdity.

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About the Author

David Zane Mairowitz is also the author of Introducing Kafka. His plays for radio are produced in over twenty countries, and his radiophonic opera, The Voluptous Tango, won the Prix Italia Special Prize and the Sony Prize in 1997.

Edition details

• Publisher: Icon Books
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1840468475
• ISBN 13: 9781840468472
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 176