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Camus, a Romance
Elizabeth Hawes
出版
Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
, 2010-06-08
主題
Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures
Literary Criticism / Books & Reading
Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs
Literary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century
Literary Criticism / European / French
ISBN
0802199879
9780802199874
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=0v9aRE5C4NsC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
A woman’s passion for the Nobel Prize winner yields “a rich hybrid of biography, literary criticism, intellectual history and memoir” (
The Washington Post
).
Elizabeth Hawes was a college sophomore in the 1950s when she became transfixed and transformed by Albert Camus. The author of such revered works as
The Fall
,
The Plague
, and
The Stranger
, he was best known for his contribution to twentieth-century literature. But who was he, beneath the trappings of fame?
A
French-Algerian of humble birth; the TB-stricken exile editing the war resistance newspaper
Comba
t; the
pied noir
in anguish over the Algerian War; and the Don Juan who loved a multitude of women. Above all, he was a man who was making an indelible mark on the psyche of an increasingly grounded and empowered nineteen-year-old girl in Massachusetts. Confident that one day she would meet her idol, Elizabeth never let go of his basic message: that in a world that was absurd, the only course was awareness and action.
In this “beautiful memoir of a life-long obsession” (
Harper’s Magazine
), literary critic Elizabeth Hawes chronicles her personal forty-year journey as she follows in Camus’s footsteps, “bring[ing] this troubled and complex writer back into the light” (
The Boston Globe
). “A fascinating spin on the mere biographies others produce”,
Camus, a Romance
is the story not only of the elusive and solitary Camus, one wrought with passion and detail, but of the enduring and life-changing relationship between a reader and a most beloved writer (
The Huffington Post
).