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Few would question that Albert Camus (1913-1960), novelist, playwright, philosopher and journalist, is a major cultural icon. His widely quoted works have led to countless movie adaptions, graphic novels, pop songs, and even t-shirts.In this Very Short Introduction, Oliver Gloag chronicles the inspiring story of Camus' life. From a poor fatherless settler in French-Algeria to the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Gloag offers a comprehensive view of Camus' major works and interventions, including his notion of the absurd and revolt, as well as his highly original concept of pure happiness through unity with nature called "bonheur". This original introduction also addresses debates on coloniality, which have arisen around Camus' work.Gloag presents Camus in all his complexity a staunch defender of many progressive causes, fiercely attached to his French-Algerian roots, a writer of enormous talent and social awareness plagued by self-doubt, and a crucially relevant author whose major works continue to significantly impact our views on contemporary issues and events.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
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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 theupheavals 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.