Camus, a Romance

Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth Hawes is the author of New York New York: How the Apartment House Transformed the Life of the City, 1869-1930. A former staff member and a contributor to The New Yorker, she has also written for The New York Times Magazine and Book Review, The Nation and numerous other publications. She lives in New York and Martha's Vineyard. Klappentext Albert Camus is best known for his contribution to twentieth-century literature. But who was he, beneath the trappings of fame? Camus, a Romance reveals the French-Algerian of humble birth; the TB-stricken exile editing the war resistance newspaper Combat; the pied noir in anguish over the Algerian War; the Don Juan who loved a multitude of women. These form only the barest outlines of Camus's life, which Elizabeth Hawes chronicles alongside her own experience following in his footsteps."Camus, a Romance"is at once biography and memoir--wrought with passion and detail, it is the story not only of Camus, but of the relationship between a reader and a most beloved writer. Zusammenfassung Albert Camus is best known for his contribution to twentieth-century literature. But who was he, beneath the trappings of fame? Camus, a Romance reveals the French-Algerian of humble birth; the TB-stricken exile editing the war resistance newspaper Combat; the pied noir in anguish over the Algerian War; the Don Juan who loved a multitude of women.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Hawes, Hawes Elizabeth
• Publisher: Atlantic monthly press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.07.2010
• EAN: 9780802144881
• ISBN: 978-0-8021-4488-1
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies; France, HISTORY / Europe / France, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Algeria, Biography, Literature & Literary studies, CULTURAL HERITAGE / French, Relating to adulthood