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Book SynopsisA Writer’s Topography examines French-Algerian Nobel Prize laureate Albert Camus’s intimate yet often unsettled relationship with natural and human landscapes. Much like the Greek hero Sisyphus about whom he wrote his famous philosophical essay, Camus sustained a deep awareness of and appreciation for what he termed le visage de ce monde—the face of this earth. This wide-ranging collection of essays by Camus scholars from around the world demonstrates to what extent topography is omnipresent in Camus’s life and works. Configurations and contemplations of landscape figure prominently in his fictional works on both a literal and figurative level—from the earliest writings of his youth to his final, unfinished novel, Le Premier Homme. Furthermore, as a core component of the way in which Camus perceived, conceived and expressed the human condition, topography constitutes an over-arching and particularly profound dimension of his personal, public and philosophical thought.
Table of ContentsJason HERBECK and Vincent GRÉGOIRE: Introduction Part I. Camus and His Works: Openings and Closings Agnès SPIQUEL-COURDILLE: Les lieux ouverts et le royaume Raymond GAY-CROSIER: Exiled in a Spiritual Geography: Albert Camus’s Road to Values Part II. Ontological Spaces Vincent GRÉGOIRE : Réflexion sur le thème du plateau dans la vie et l’œuvre de Camus Guy BASSET : Topographies suspendues Jacquelyn LIBBY : Tipasa and le monde: Metonymic Displacement in “Noces à Tipasa” Sophie BASTIEN : Formes et fonctions de la prison chez Camus Part III. Literal Meeting Places of the Imaginary Steven WINSPUR : Paysages et d’autres réseaux de vie chez Camus John WALSH: The Cooper and the Painter: The Topography of the Atelier in L’Exil et le Royaume Lorenzo GIACHETTI: A Psychogeography of the Monstrous in Le Premier Homme Part IV. Literary Meeting Places: Camus and His Contemporaries Thierry DURAND : Blanchot, Camus: une approche préliminaire Martine BENJAMIN : Le tombeau parental, ou « le temps d’un retour » dans Le Premier Homme d’Albert Camus, et dans Adieu ma mère, adieu mon cœur de Jules Roy Ben STOLTZFUZ: Hemingway’s Influence on Camus: The Iceberg as Topography Part V. In (the) Place of Writing: Literal and Literary Constructions Jason HERBECK: Bridging Consciousness: A Topographical Reading of La Chute Marie-Thérèse BLONDEAU : La Peste ou les métamorphoses d’Oran Matthew MOYLE : Écrire le lieu qui s’inscrit: topographies toponymiques dans La Peste et La Chute John LAMBETH: The Figure of the Labyrinth in “Le Renégat” and “La Pierre qui pousse” Author Information
