Oliver Gloag: Forget Camus, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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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 Popular Front 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.