
By Conor Cruise O'Brien,Oliver Kamm
Conor Cruise O'Brien's penetrative analyzing of Albert Camus, Nobel laureate and writer of L'Étranger and La Peste, used to be initially released in 1970.
'O'Brien's Camus is awesome. whereas having been himself profoundly moved via Camus's paintings, he asks why scholars have so frequently misinterpreted him.' Marghanita Laski, The Times
'[Camus] monitors O'Brien's cultivated intelligence at its so much joyous pitch, and . . . demonstrates his particular severe expertise . . . [O'Brien] demonstrates that Camus used to be faraway from being an exemplar of the actually self reliant highbrow and that his notion of "Mediterranean tradition" served to legitimise France's ownership of Algeria . . . O'Brien's prose has a candy rigour as he first explores Camus's feel of estrangement and unreality, after which locations his paintings inside a social context.' Tom Paulin, Times Literary Supplement
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