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A Writer’s Topography examines French-Algerian Nobel Prize laureate Albert Camus’s intimate yet often unsettled relationship with natural and human landscapes. Much like the Greek hero Sisyphus about whom he wrote his famous philosophical essay, Camus sustained a deep awareness of and appreciation for what he termed le visage de ce monde—the face of this earth. This wide-ranging collection of essays by Camus scholars from around the world demonstrates to what extent topography is omnipresent in Camus’s life and works. Configurations and contemplations of landscape figure prominently in his fictional works on both a literal and figurative level—from the earliest writings of his youth to his final, unfinished novel, Le Premier Homme. Furthermore, as a core component of the way in which Camus perceived, conceived and expressed the human condition, topography constitutes an over-arching and particularly profound dimension of his personal, public and philosophical thought.

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Author:   Jason Herbeck ,  Vincent Grégoire
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   406
Weight:   0.375kg
ISBN:  

9789004298231

ISBN 10:   9004298231
Pages:   226
Publication Date:   03 September 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   English, French

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Jason HERBECK and Vincent GREGOIRE: Introduction Part I. Camus and His Works: Openings and Closings Agnes SPIQUEL-COURDILLE: Les lieux ouverts et le royaume Raymond GAY-CROSIER: Exiled in a Spiritual Geography: Albert Camus's Road to Values Part II. Ontological Spaces Vincent GREGOIRE : Reflexion sur le theme du plateau dans la vie et l'oeuvre de Camus Guy BASSET : Topographies suspendues Jacquelyn LIBBY : Tipasa and le monde: Metonymic Displacement in Noces a Tipasa Sophie BASTIEN : Formes et fonctions de la prison chez Camus Part III. Literal Meeting Places of the Imaginary Steven WINSPUR : Paysages et d'autres reseaux de vie chez Camus John WALSH: The Cooper and the Painter: The Topography of the Atelier in L'Exil et le Royaume Lorenzo GIACHETTI: A Psychogeography of the Monstrous in Le Premier Homme Part IV. Literary Meeting Places: Camus and His Contemporaries Thierry DURAND : Blanchot, Camus: une approche preliminaire Martine BENJAMIN : Le tombeau parental, ou le temps d'un retour dans Le Premier Homme d'Albert Camus, et dans Adieu ma mere, adieu mon coeur de Jules Roy Ben STOLTZFUZ: Hemingway's Influence on Camus: The Iceberg as Topography Part V. In (the) Place of Writing: Literal and Literary Constructions Jason HERBECK: Bridging Consciousness: A Topographical Reading of La Chute Marie-Therese BLONDEAU : La Peste ou les metamorphoses d'Oran Matthew MOYLE : Ecrire le lieu qui s'inscrit: topographies toponymiques dans La Peste et La Chute John LAMBETH: The Figure of the Labyrinth in Le Renegat and La Pierre qui pousse Author Information

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Jason Herbeck is Professor of French at Boise State University (Idaho, USA). In addition to publications devoted to the literatures and histories of Haiti, Martinique and Guadeloupe, he has authored numerous articles and book chapters on Albert Camus. He is also President of the North American Section of the Société des Études Camusiennes. Vincent Grégoire is « Nichols Professor of French » at Berry College (Georgia, USA). Author of L’Absence et le détail dans l’œuvre romanesque d’Albert Camus (2003) and of numerous articles on Camus, he publishes also in the field of Seventeenth-Century French Studies.

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