Albert Camus

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One of France's most high-profile writers, Albert Camus experienced bothpublic adulation and acrimonious rejection during a career cut short by afatal car accident in 1960. Edward J. Hughes analyses the life of an author whosework and stance were the subject of both intense interest and scrutiny. 'I donot guide anyone' Camus was to plead in his last interview, thereby reinforcingthe paradox of a leading figure who in private wrestled with the challengeof pursuing his craft as a writer in an age of pressing ideological conflict.

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"Drawing extensively on correspondence, interviews, notebooks, news articles, and biographies, Hughes traces Camus's life in detail, from his working-class upbringing in colonial Algeria through his rise to celebrity and untimely death. . . . Those looking for a brief yet comprehensive biography will be pleased."
-- "Choice"

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Edward J. Hughes is Professor of French at Queen Mary University of London. His books include Writing Marginality in Modern French Literature: From Loti to Genet (2001) and Proust, Class, and Nation (2011). He edited The Cambridge Companion to Camus (2007).