Albert Camus
Hughes, Edward J. (Edward Joseph), 1953-2015
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One of France's most high-profile writers and the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957, Albert Camus experienced both public adulation and acrimonious rejection during his career, which was cut short by a fatal car accident in 1960 when he was only 45 years old. Born in 1913 to a working-class family in colonial Algeria, Camus was, from an early age, confronted with contraditictions, not only within his culturally limited home life, which contrasted with his bourgeois education and peer group at the lycee, but in the disparities of a life lived in colonial North Africa and later in France during a time of worldwide political and social upheaval. From his best-selling novels The Outside and The Plague, to his complicated political engagement in a post-war world of intensifying ideological conflict, this critical biography offers a fresh look at the life and work of one of the most iconic writers of the twentieth century.
Main title:
Albert Camus / Edward J. Hughes.
Imprint:
London : Reaktion Books, 2015.
Collation:
215 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm.
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Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-211)
ISBN:
9781780234939
Dewey class:
843.912
Language:
English
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BRN:
258581
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandringham Library | Adult Non Fiction - Biography | 843.912 CAM | Available |