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    Item specifics

    Condition
    Acceptable: A book with obvious wear. May have some damage to the cover but integrity still intact. ...
    Release Year
    1997
    ISBN
    9780679428558

    About this product

    Product Identifiers

    Publisher
    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
    ISBN-10
    0679428550
    ISBN-13
    9780679428558
    eBay Product ID (ePID)
    452679

    Product Key Features

    Original Language
    French
    Book Title
    Albert Camus : Alife
    Number of Pages
    468 Pages
    Language
    English
    Topic
    European / French, Literary
    Publication Year
    1997
    Illustrator
    Yes
    Genre
    Literary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography
    Author
    Olivier Todd
    Format
    Hardcover

    Dimensions

    Item Height
    1.5 in
    Item Weight
    29.6 Oz
    Item Length
    9.5 in
    Item Width
    6.6 in

    Additional Product Features

    Intended Audience
    Trade
    LCCN
    97-002991
    Dewey Edition
    21
    Dewey Decimal
    848.9/12/09
    Edition Description
    Abridged edition
    Synopsis
    In this enormously engaging, vibrant, and richly researched biography of Albert Camus, the French writer and journalist Olivier Todd has drawn on personal correspondence, notebooks, and public records never before tapped, as well as interviews with Camus's family, friends, fellow workers, writers, mentors, and lovers. Todd shows us a Camus who struggled all his life with irreconcilable conflicts--between his loyalty to family and his passionate nature, between the call to political action and the integrity to his art, between his support of the native Algerians and his identification with the forgotten people, the poor whites. A very private man, Camus could be charming and prickly, sincere and theatrical, genuinely humble, yet full of great ambition. Todd paints a vivid picture of the time and place that shaped Camus--his impoverished childhood in the Algerian city of Belcourt, the sea and the sun and the hot sands that he so loved (he would always feel an exile elsewhere), and the educational system that nurtured him. We see the forces that lured him into communism, and his attraction to the theater and to journalism as outlets for his creativity. The Paris that Camus was inevitably drawn to is one that Todd knows intimately, and he brings alive the war years, the underground activities that Camus was caught up in during the Occupation and the bitter postwar period, as well as the intrigues of the French literati who embraced Camus after his first novel, L'Etranger, was published. Todd is also keenly attuned to the French intellectual climate, and as he takes Camus's measure as a successful novelist, journalist, playwright and director, literary editor, philosopher, he also reveals the temperament in the writer that increasingly isolated him and crippled his reputation in the years before his death and for a long time after. He shows us the solitary man behind the mask--debilitated by continuing bouts of tuberculosis, constantly drawn to irresistible women, and deeply troubled by his political conflicts with the reigning French intellectuals, particularly by the vitriol of his former friend Sartre over the Algerian conflict. Filled with sharp observations and sparkling with telling details, here is a wonderfully human portrait of the Nobel Prize-winning writer, who died at the age of forty-six and who remains one of the most influential literary figures of our time.
    LC Classification Number
    PQ2605.A3734Z76513

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