Albert Camus: A Biography
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, with chipping and wear on spine edges and corners, some minor damage and creasing; some loss on rear panel. Page Condition: some foxing along the book block. Markings: No visible markings. Binding: Appears intact.
This landmark biography chronicles the life of Albert Camus, the Nobel Prize-winning French-Algerian author and philosopher whose works reshaped twentieth-century literature and thought. Herbert R. Lottman presents an exhaustively researched portrait, drawing on hundreds of interviews and archival sources to reconstruct Camus's journey from his impoverished childhood in colonial Algeria to his celebrated status as one of Europe's most influential intellectual figures. The narrative details his wartime involvement in the French Resistance, his complex relationships with contemporaries such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, and the philosophical tensions that underpinned works like The Stranger, The Plague, and The Myth of Sisyphus. Authoritative and deeply humane, the biography captures both the brilliance and the contradictions of a man who argued passionately for justice and human dignity until his sudden death in 1960.
Author: Herbert R. Lottman
Format: Hardback
Published: 1979, -
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, with chipping and wear on spine edges and corners, some minor damage and creasing; some loss on rear panel. Page Condition: some foxing along the book block. Markings: No visible markings. Binding: Appears intact.
This landmark biography chronicles the life of Albert Camus, the Nobel Prize-winning French-Algerian author and philosopher whose works reshaped twentieth-century literature and thought. Herbert R. Lottman presents an exhaustively researched portrait, drawing on hundreds of interviews and archival sources to reconstruct Camus's journey from his impoverished childhood in colonial Algeria to his celebrated status as one of Europe's most influential intellectual figures. The narrative details his wartime involvement in the French Resistance, his complex relationships with contemporaries such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, and the philosophical tensions that underpinned works like The Stranger, The Plague, and The Myth of Sisyphus. Authoritative and deeply humane, the biography captures both the brilliance and the contradictions of a man who argued passionately for justice and human dignity until his sudden death in 1960.