
Introducing Camus
David Zane Mairowitz(Author)
Icon Books (Publisher)
Published on 1. November 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
176 pages
978-1-84046-847-2 (ISBN)
Description
Albert Camus, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, always refused the existentialist label with which he is usually associated. For Camus, the world was 'absurd', without purpose, leading only unto death, yet all the more invigorating precisely because of this. Long associated with Left-Bank intellectuals, Camus' real emotional centre was always his native Algeria and the poverty of his youth. This has become even clearer with the publication of his posthumous novel "The First Man", which has catapulted Camus back into the public eye after years of excommunication by the Left for his 'un-radical' views during the Algerian war. "Introducing Camus" portrays a man who was an intellectual in the tradition of the great French humanists, a Resistance fighter during World War II, and also a great sensualist for whom sun, sea, sex, football and theatre were the answer to life's absurdity.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Duxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 209 mm
Width: 141 mm
Weight
236 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84046-847-2 (9781840468472)
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David Zane Mairowitz
Introducing Camus
Book
08/1999
Icon Books
€32.37
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Person
David Zane Mairowitz is also the author of Introducing Kafka. His plays for radio are produced in over twenty countries, and his radiophonic opera, The Voluptous Tango, won the Prix Italia Special Prize and the Sony Prize in 1997. Alain Korkos is a highly-regarding illustrator and artist who lives in Paris, and has illustrated numerous adult and children's books.