Forget Camus: Confronting the Humanist Myth

Forget Camus: Confronting the Humanist Myth - Paperback

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Forget Camus: Confronting the Humanist Myth - Paperback

Forget Camus: Confronting the Humanist Myth - Paperback

by Oliver Gloag
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PEELING BACK THE MYTHS OBSCURING FRANCE'S ALL-TIME MOST POPULAR AUTHOR

Albert Camus is broadly regarded as a philosopher of our time: a freedom fighter and a pioneering anti-colonialist. Oliver Gloag rejects the simplicity of this persistent image. A careful reading of Camus's three major novels - The Stranger, The Plague, and The First Man - reveals a deep-seated attachment to colonialism and the colonial way of life. Forget Camus argues that its subject's contradictions are central to understanding both his work and the meaning behind his enduring popularity. The legacy of the most widely read Frenchman in the world has been co-opted to present a flattering and false version of colonial history and is an obstacle to France coming to terms with its neocolonial present.

Forget Camus is a book about colonial history and a nation's literature that lays bare the ideological contradictions of French society past and present.
ISBN9781836742708
Author Oliver Gloag
PublisherVerso
GenreHistory and Philosophy
FormatPaperback
PublishedJuly 2026
LanguageENG- English
Pages144
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Forget Camus: Confronting the Humanist Myth - Paperback

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About Oliver Gloag

Oliver Gloag is a writer affiliated with Duke's Institute for Critical Theory. He was born in New York and grew up in France. He has a JD from Tulane University and a Ph.D in romance studies from Duke. His focus is on colonial representations in French literature. He lives in Brooklyn.

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