Camus’s L’Etranger: Fifty Years on

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction: After Fifty Years, Still a Stranger....Pages 1-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Camus, Our Youthful Years....Pages 18-23
Innocence in Camus and Dostoievsky....Pages 24-35
L’Etranger and ‘Metaphysical Anxiety’....Pages 36-46
Front Matter....Pages 47-47
Discovering The Outsider....Pages 48-50
A Brother to the Stranger....Pages 51-58
The Impact of L’Etranger: Oblique Reflections on an Oblique Novel....Pages 59-64
L’Etranger and L’Objecteur....Pages 65-75
The Reception of L’Etranger in the Soviet Union....Pages 76-88
Camus and Algerian Writers....Pages 89-100
History and Ethnicity in the Reception of L’Etranger....Pages 101-112
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
Telling Stories: Narrative Reflections in L’Etranger....Pages 114-124
Narrative Desire in L’Etranger....Pages 125-138
The Rhetoric of the Text: Causality, Metaphor, and Irony....Pages 139-151
Mama’s Boy: Reading Woman in L’Etranger....Pages 152-169
Humanism and the White Man’s Burden’: Camus, Daru, Meursault and the Arabs....Pages 170-182
The Depiction of Arabs in L’Etranger....Pages 183-192
Front Matter....Pages 193-193
Camus, Faulkner, Dead Mothers: A Dialogue....Pages 194-208
L’Etranger and the New Novel....Pages 209-220
Camus, Orwell and Greene: the Impossible Fascination of the Colonised....Pages 221-231
Front Matter....Pages 193-193
Strangers and Brothers in the Works of Albert Camus and Jules Roy....Pages 232-243
Camus and Sartre....Pages 244-251
Back Matter....Pages 252-255