The Originality and Complexity of Albert Camuss Writings [Hardcover]

Fifty years after Camus's untimely death, his work still has a tremendous impact on literature. From a twenty-first century vantage point, he offers us coexisting ideas and principles by which we can read and understand the other and ourselves. Yet Camus seems to guide us without directing us strictly; his fictions do not offer clear-cut solutions or doctrines to follow. This complexity is what demands that the oeuvre be read, and reread. The wide-ranging articles in this volume shed light, concentrate on the original aspects of Camus' writings, and explore how and why they are still relevant for us today.PART I: LITERARY CONSIDERATIONS Camus, the Nouveau Roman, and the Postmodern The Complexity and Modernity of La peste Albert Camus's The Fall : The Vertiginous Fall into Language, Representation, and Reality PART II: PHILOSOPHICAL AND POLITICAL REFLECTIONS Camus's Unbeknownst Legacy: Or, 'I'm having an existential crisis!' Don't you really mean a Camusian crisis? Sisyphean (Out)rage and the Refusal to Mourn Albert Camus's Warring Twentieth Century: From his Ancestral Spain to his Mediterranean Utopias PART III: EVOLUTION AND INFLUENCES Prison, Plague, and Piety: Medieval Dystopia in Albert Camus's La peste Summer by Albert Camus: The Essay in the Mirror of Fiction Tormented Shade: Camus's DostoevskyMICHAEL Y. BENNETT University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA MATTHEW H. BOWKER Medaille College, USA JENNIFER STAFFORD BROWN Whitworth University, USA THOMAS EPSTEIN Boston College, USA ARACELI HERN?NDEZ-LAROCHE Georgian Court University, USA MAMADOU ABDOULAYE LY Mary Immaculate College, Ireland AUR?LIE PALUD University of Rennes, France EDMUND J. SMYTH Manchester Metropolitan University, UK