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Camus’s L’Etranger: Fifty Years on

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  • © 1992

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  1. Adele King

    1. Ball State University, Muncie, USA

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: After Fifty Years, Still a Stranger

    1. Introduction: After Fifty Years, Still a Stranger

      • Adele King
      Pages 1-15

  3. Contexts and Influences on L’Etranger

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. Camus, Our Youthful Years

      • Emmanuel Roblès
      Pages 18-23

    3. Innocence in Camus and Dostoievsky

      • Jean Daniel
      Pages 24-35

    4. L’Etranger and ‘Metaphysical Anxiety’

      • Frantz Favre
      Pages 36-46

  4. The Reception of L’Etranger and its Influence on Other Writers

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 47-47
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    2. Discovering The Outsider

      • Albert Wendt
      Pages 48-50

    3. A Brother to the Stranger

      • Vilas Sarang
      Pages 51-58

    4. The Impact of L’Etranger: Oblique Reflections on an Oblique Novel

      • K. N. Daruwalla
      Pages 59-64

    5. L’Etranger and L’Objecteur

      • David Bradby
      Pages 65-75

    6. The Reception of L’Etranger in the Soviet Union

      • Hélène Poplyansky
      Pages 76-88

    7. Camus and Algerian Writers

      • Christiane Achour
      Pages 89-100

    8. History and Ethnicity in the Reception of L’Etranger

      • Alec G. Hargreaves
      Pages 101-112

  5. Textual Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113
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    2. Telling Stories: Narrative Reflections in L’Etranger

      • Rosemarie Jones
      Pages 114-124

    3. Narrative Desire in L’Etranger

      • Gilbert D. Chaitin
      Pages 125-138

    4. The Rhetoric of the Text: Causality, Metaphor, and Irony

      • Peter Schofer
      Pages 139-151

    5. Mama’s Boy: Reading Woman in L’Etranger

      • Vicki Mistacco
      Pages 152-169

    6. Humanism and the White Man’s Burden’: Camus, Daru, Meursault and the Arabs

      • Michel Grimaud
      Pages 170-182
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About this book

These essays on L'Etranger celebrate its continuing influence throughout the world. Contributors come from Algeria, Samoa, India, Russia, France, Britain and the United States. Included are essays by prominent French and English-language authors for whom the novel has been an influential expression of contemporary sensibility. Other essays include feminist interpretations of Meursault, studies of Camus's narrative form, and explorations of the Algerian setting of the novel. Comparative studies show Camus's relation to the New Novel, to Greene and Orwell, to Jules Roy, and to Sartre.

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  • Ball State University, Muncie, USA

    Adele King

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