Looking for the stranger : Albert Camus and the life of a literary classic / Alice Kaplan.
| Author/creator | Kaplan, Alice Yaeger author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2016] |
| Description | 289 pages : maps ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Prologue -- A bonfire -- From Belcourt to Hydra -- A first try -- The novel he didn't know he was writing -- A reporter on the beat -- Any person condemned to death shall have his head cut off -- The absurd -- A first chapter -- What he carried -- Writing part I -- Already traced within me -- Exodus -- Rue d'Arzew -- A jealous teacher and a generous comrade -- Resolve -- The Malraux factor -- A reader's report -- Gallimard's war -- The stranger is born -- Recovery -- From the absurd to revolt -- Above ground -- Existentialist twins -- Consecration in New York -- A book for everyone -- What's in a name? -- Epilogue: l'écho d'Oran. |
| Abstract | "A National Book Award-finalist biographer tells the story of how a young man in his 20s who had never written a novel turned out a masterpiece that still grips readers more than 70 years later and is considered a rite of passage for readers around the world,"--NoveList. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| Genre/form | Biography. |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| LCCN | 2016008498 |
| ISBN | 9780226241678 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 022624167X (cloth ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | (e-book) |