The Narcissistic Text : : A Reading of Camus' Fiction / / Brian Fitch.
Critics, theologians, philosophers, and psychoanalysts have written several thousand books, theses, and articles about Camus' fiction. His first published novel, L'Etranger, had a unique impact on a whole generation of readers, and is other fiction, although not as well known, has also bee...
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