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Olivier Todd's biography of Albert Camus matches its subject's depth by portraying the man as well as the moralist. Born in Algeria and raised in poverty by an illiterate mother, Camus never forgot where he came from. He made his name in Nazi-occupied Paris--publicly as the author of The Stranger and The Myth of Sisyphus, covertly as a member of the Resistance and editor of its newspaper, Combat--but he longed for the North African sun of his youth. During the years of crisis when Algeria struggled to break free from France, Camus alienated both colonialists and revolutionaries by supporting full equality for Arabs but denouncing terrorism. "I believe in justice," he told an Algerian heckler at a 1957 meeting he addressed in Stockholm after winning the Nobel Prize. "But I will defend my mother before justice." It is this preference for the concrete over the abstract that makes Camus such an appealing thinker. Todd's biography, which offers the most fully human depiction yet, is equally engaging. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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There are very few biographies as meticulously researched as this one by journalist and author Todd (Cruel April, LJ 8/90). In some cases, the research leads to stretches of very tedious reading, but the book's smooth narrative flow mostly prevents that and makes for a rich description of Camus's life in colonial Algiers, wartime Paris, and his relationship with his immediate family, wives, and lovers. Todd's use of personal correspondence, interviews with family members, and previously unused public records reveals a complex man who was a philosopher, novelist, literary editor, and journalist slowly dying of tuberculosis and at odds with fellow French intellectuals over his political beliefs. Set against the historical background of French North Africa, Occupied France, and the postwar Paris literary scene, Camus vividly comes to life almost 40 years after his tragic death in an automobile accident. Recommended for specific collections.
-?David Lee Poremba, Detroit P.L.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Olivier Todd's biography of Albert Camus matches its subject's depth by portraying the man as well as the moralist. Born in Algeria and raised in poverty by an illiterate mother, Camus never forgot where he came from. He made his name in Nazi-occupied Paris--publicly as the author of The Stranger and The Myth of Sisyphus, covertly as a member of the Resistance and editor of its newspaper, Combat--but he longed for the North African sun of his youth. During the years of crisis when Algeria struggled to break free from France, Camus alienated both colonialists and revolutionaries by supporting full equality for Arabs but denouncing terrorism. "I believe in justice," he told an Algerian heckler at a 1957 meeting he addressed in Stockholm after winning the Nobel Prize. "But I will defend my mother before justice." It is this preference for the concrete over the abstract that makes Camus such an appealing thinker. Todd's biography, which offers the most fully human depiction yet, is equally engaging. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
From Library Journal
There are very few biographies as meticulously researched as this one by journalist and author Todd (Cruel April, LJ 8/90). In some cases, the research leads to stretches of very tedious reading, but the book's smooth narrative flow mostly prevents that and makes for a rich description of Camus's life in colonial Algiers, wartime Paris, and his relationship with his immediate family, wives, and lovers. Todd's use of personal correspondence, interviews with family members, and previously unused public records reveals a complex man who was a philosopher, novelist, literary editor, and journalist slowly dying of tuberculosis and at odds with fellow French intellectuals over his political beliefs. Set against the historical background of French North Africa, Occupied France, and the postwar Paris literary scene, Camus vividly comes to life almost 40 years after his tragic death in an automobile accident. Recommended for specific collections.
-?David Lee Poremba, Detroit P.L.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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On September 22, 1913, on the Saint-Paul Farm outside the town of Mondovi in Algeria, Lucien Auguste Camus wrote to his employer, "The grape harvest at Saint-Paul ended this morning at 10 a.m." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Albert Camus, Maria Casarès, New York, Alger Républicain, André Malraux, André Gide, Charles Poncet, Gaston Gallimard, Claude de Fréminville, Pascal Pia, Catherine Sellers, Jeanne Sicard, Michel Gallimard, René Char, Jean-Paul Sartre, Marguerite Dobrenn, Nobel Prize, Don Juan, François Mauriac, Robert Gallimard, Christiane Galindo, North Africa, Lucien Camus, Simone de Beauvoir, Théâtre du Travail New!
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On September 22, 1913, on the Saint-Paul Farm outside the town of Mondovi in Algeria, Lucien Auguste Camus wrote to his employer, "The grape harvest at Saint-Paul ended this morning at 10 a.m." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Albert Camus, Maria Casarès, New York, Alger Républicain, André Malraux, André Gide, Charles Poncet, Gaston Gallimard, Claude de Fréminville, Pascal Pia, Catherine Sellers, Jeanne Sicard, Michel Gallimard, René Char, Jean-Paul Sartre, Marguerite Dobrenn, Nobel Prize, Don Juan, François Mauriac, Robert Gallimard, Christiane Galindo, North Africa, Lucien Camus, Simone de Beauvoir, Théâtre du Travail New!
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- Le Premier Homme (French Edition) by Albert Camus on 14 pages
- Justes (Folio) (French Edition) by Albert Camus on 8 pages
- The Lower Depths (Dover Thrift Editions) by Maxim Gorky on 5 pages
- Being And Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre on 5 pages
- Don Giovanni in Full Score (Opera Libretto Series) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on 4 pages
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- Uncivil War: Intellectuals and Identity Politics During the Decolonization of Algeria by James D. Le Sueur on 4 pages
- Help: The Original Human Dilemma by Garret Keizer in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Solitude and Its Ambiguities in Modernist Fiction by Edward Engelberg in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Art and Thought (New Interventions in Art History) by Dana Arnold on page 107, and Back Matter
- How to Be Idle by Tom Hodgkinson in Back Matter
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