Forget Camus: Confronting the Humanist Myth by Gloag, Oliver

Forget Camus: Confronting the Humanist Myth (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781836742708)

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Forget Camus: Confronting the Humanist Myth by Gloag, Oliver

Forget Camus: Confronting the Humanist Myth

$21.95
Forget Camus: Confronting the Humanist Myth by Gloag, Oliver

Forget Camus: Confronting the Humanist Myth

$21.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Oliver Gloag
ISBN-10: 1836742703
ISBN-13: 9781836742708
Publisher: Verso
Language: English
Published: 07/28/2026
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
By Oliver Gloag
By Oliver Gloag
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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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