Cambridge Companion to Camus Book

Notes on contributors     vii
Acknowledgements     x
Chronology     xi
Preliminary notes and abbreviations     xvii
Introduction   Edward J. Hughes     1
Biography and Influences
Camus: a life lived in critical times   Ieme van der Poel     13
Situating Camus: the formative influences   Toby Garfitt     26
Autobiographical soundings in L'Envers et l'Endroit   Edward J. Hughes     39
Themes, Preoccupations and Genres
Rethinking the absurd: Le Mythe de Sisyphe   David Carroll     53
Camus and the theatre   Christine Margerrison     67
Camus the journalist   Jeanyves Guerin     79
Camus and social justice   Martin Crowley     93
Violence and ethics in Camus   Colin Davis     106
Camus and Sartre: the great quarrel   Charles Forsdick     118
Portraits of women, visions of Algeria   Danielle Marx-Scouras     131
Texts and Contexts
From Noces to L'Etranger   Peter Dunwoodie     147
Layers of meaning in La Peste   Margaret E. Gray     165
Withheld identity in La Chute   David R. Ellison     178
Le Premier Homme and the literature of loss   Debra Kelly     191
Postface   Edward J. Hughes     203
Guide to further reading     210
Index     220