An edition of Looking for the stranger
(2016)
Looking for the stranger
Albert Camus and the life of a literary classic
by Alice Yaeger Kaplan
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"A National Book Award-finalist biographer tells the story of how a young man in his 20s who had never written a novel turned out a masterpiece that still grips readers more than 70 years later and is considered a rite of passage for readers around the world,"--NoveList.
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Looking for the stranger: Albert Camus and the life of a literary classic
2016, The University of Chicago Press
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Table of Contents
Prologue
A bonfire
From Belcourt to Hydra
A first try
The novel he didn't know he was writing
A reporter on the beat
Any person condemned to death shall have his head cut off
The absurd
A first chapter
What he carried
Writing part I
Already traced within me
Exodus
Rue d'Arzew
A jealous teacher and a generous comrade
Resolve
The Malraux factor
A reader's report
Gallimard's war
The stranger is born
Recovery
From the absurd to revolt
Above ground
Existentialist twins
Consecration in New York
A book for everyone
What's in a name?
Epilogue: l'écho d'Oran.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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