Camus's L'Etranger: Fifty Years on

by Adele King (Editor)

Overview

These essays on L'Etranger celebrate its continuing influence throughout the world. Contributors come from Algeria, Samoa, India, Russia, France, Britain and the United States. Included are essays by prominent French and English-language authors for whom the novel has been an influential expression of contemporary sensibility. Other essays include feminist interpretations of Meursault, studies of Camus's narrative form, and explorations of the Algerian setting of the novel. Comparative studies show Camus's relation to the New Novel, to Greene and Orwell, to Jules Roy, and to Sartre.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349220052
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/1992
Edition description:	1st ed. 1992
Pages:	255
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Preface - Introduction: After Fifty Years, Still a Stranger; A.King - Contexts and Influences on L'Etranger - Camus, our Youthful Years; E.Robl s - Innocence in Camus and Dostoievsky; J.Daniel - L'Etranger and 'Metaphysical Anxiety'; F.Favre - The Reception of L'Etranger and its Influence on other Writers - Discovering the Outsider; A.Wendt - A Brother to the Stranger; V.Sarang - The Impact of L'Etranger: Oblique Reflections on an Oblique Novel; K.N.Daruwalla - L'Etranger and L'Objecteur; D.Bradby - The Reception of L'Etranger in the Soviet Union; H.Poplyansky - Camus and Algerian Writers; C.Achour - History and Ethnicity in the Reception of L'Etranger; A.G.Hargreaves - Textual Studies - Telling Stories: Narrative Reflections in L'Etranger; R.Jones - Narrative Desire in L'Etranger; G.Chaitin - The Rhetoric of the Text: Causality, Metaphor, and Irony; P.Schofer - Mama's Boy: Reading Woman in L'Etranger; V.Mistacco - Humanism and the 'White Man's Burden': Camus, Daru, Meursault, and the Arabs; M.Grimaud - Depiction of Arabs in L'Etranger; J.Rigaud - Comparative Studies - Camus, Faulkner, Dead Mothers ... A Dialogue; D.Clarke & C.Makward - L'Etranger and the New Novel; J.Fletcher - Camus, Orwell and Greene: the Impossible Fascination of the Colonized; P.McCarthy - Strangers and Brothers in the Works of Albert Camus and Jules Roy; C.S.Brosman - Camus and Sartre; O.Todd - Notes - Index