Introduction

pp 1-10

PART I: - BIOGRAPHY AND INFLUENCES

pp 11-12

1 - Camus: a life lived in critical times

pp 13-25

2 - Situating Camus: the formative influences

pp 26-38

3 - Autobiographical soundings in L’Envers et l’Endroit

pp 39-50

PART II: - THEMES, PREOCCUPATIONS AND GENRES

pp 51-52

4 - Rethinking the Absurd: Le Mythe de Sisyph

pp 53-66

5 - Camus and the theatre

pp 67-78

6 - Camus the journalist

pp 79-92

7 - Camus and social justice

pp 93-105

8 - Violence and ethics in Camus

pp 106-117

9 - Camus and Sartre: the great quarrel

pp 118-130

10 - Portraits of women, visions of Algeria

pp 131-144

PART III: - TEXTS AND CONTEXTS

pp 145-146

11 - From Noces to L’Etranger

pp 147-164

12 - Layers of meaning in La Peste

pp 165-177

13 - Withheld identity in La Chute

pp 178-190

14 - Le Premier Homme and the literature of loss

pp 191-202

Postface

pp 203-209

Guide to Further reading

pp 210-219

Index

pp 220-225

Series List

pp 226-228