Category: Albert Camus

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Naming and Language in Kamel Daoud’s “Meursault, contre-enquête”

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When my daughter and I were working on Classics and Coffee, we each chose books to discuss. She chose one of her favorite novels at the time, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre for one of the early episodes. After reading the novel, I came across Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea, a postcolonial novel focusing on Edward Rochester’s wife Bertha Mason. The novel presents Bertha as … Read More Naming and Language in Kamel Daoud’s “Meursault, contre-enquête”

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The Role of the Artist in Interesting Times: A Look at Albert Camus’s “Creating Dangerously”

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Almost two years ago to the day, I finally read Albert Camus’ The Stranger. I had come across, somewhere, a discussion of the novel’s ending, which I won’t spoil here, and I became intrigued, especially since I was reading texts about the Algerian War and about France’s protectorate control of Morocco. Since then, I have been wanting to read more Camus, especially his 1947 novel The Plague which … Read More The Role of the Artist in Interesting Times: A Look at Albert Camus’s “Creating Dangerously”

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