The Cambridge Companion to Camus

by Edward J. Hughes

Book Overview

Albert Camus is one of the iconic figures of twentieth-century French literature, one of France's most widely read modern literary authors and one of the youngest winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature. As the author of L'Etranger and the architect of the notion of 'the Absurd' in the 1940s, he shot to prominence in France and beyond. His work nevertheless attracted hostility as well as acclaim and he was increasingly drawn into bitter political...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521549787
• ISBN13: 9780521549783
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"