L''etranger

Informationen zum Autor Albert Camus, edited by Ray Davison Lecturer in French, University of Exeter. Zusammenfassung L'Etranger has the force and fascination of myth. The outwardly simple narrative of an office clerk who kills an Arab, 'a cause du soleil', and finds himself condemned to death for moral insensibility becomes, in Camus's hands, a powerful image of modern man's impatience before Christian philosophy and conventional social and sexual values. For this new edition Ray Davison makes use of recent critical analysis of L'Etranger to give a full and concise description of Camus's early philosophy of the Absurd and the ideas and preoccupations from which the novel emerges. Davison also discusses the developing pattern of Camus's notion of the art of the novel, his views on 'classicism', simplicity and ambiguity, his fondness for paradox, and his love of everyday situations which yield to mythical interpretation. Inhaltsverzeichnis INTRODUCTION, NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION, BIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX, SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY, L’ETRANGER, NOTES TO THE TEXT

Product details

• Authors: Camus, Albert Camus
• Assisted by: Ray Davison (Editor), Davison Ray (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.09.2015
• EAN: 9781138127906
• ISBN: 978-1-138-12790-6
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Routledge Foreign Literature Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Mixed anthologies; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form