Name: Forget Camus: Confronting the Humanist Myth (en Inglés)
SKU: 66904737
Price: 430.98 MXN
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Author: Oliver Gloag
ISBN: 9781836742708

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Forget Camus: Confronting the Humanist Myth (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Verso Books

Autor

Oliver Gloag

Año

2026

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

144

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

21.08x13.97 cm

ISBN13

9781836742708

Forget Camus: Confronting the Humanist Myth (en Inglés)

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Reseña del libro "Forget Camus: Confronting the Humanist Myth (en Inglés)"

Forget Camus allows readers to take the measure of the complexity and contradictions of Albert Camus, Nobel Prize for literature and France’s all-time most popular author.

Olivier Gloag recalls Camus's visceral attachment to colonialism and the colonial way of life, which runs through his three major novels, The Stranger, The Plague and The First Man. It examines his political commitments in the light of his falling out with Sartre: the tension between revolt and revolution, his recourse to the absurd as a refusal of History, his anti-communism and his denial of the struggle of colonized peoples.

Finally, it looks at the way Camus has been co-opted: the most popular author in France and the most widely read Frenchman in the world has become a political and ideological battleground. The invocation of a mythologized Camus projects a flattering but falsified reflection of colonial history. It is this Camus that we need to forget in order to recognize the upheavals of a writer who was as passionately attached to the social gains of the Front Populaire as he was to the French presence in Algeria.

Forget Camus is a book about French colonial history and literature; it proposes reinterpretations of Camus’s major works: these allow to lay bare the ideological contradictions of French society past and present.