A writer's topography : : space and place in the life and works of Albert Camus / / edited by Jason Herbeck and Vincent Grégoire.

• Superior document: Faux Titre, Volume 406
• TeilnehmendeR: Herbeck, Jason,; Grégoire, Vincent,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Faux titre ; Volume 406.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Notes: "A collection of articles in French and English selected from the proceedings of an international colloquium held in Boise, Idaho, on April 18-19, 2013, to commemorate the centennial anniversary of the birth of Albert Camus in 1913"--Introduction.

A 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 Contents

Preliminary Material / Jason Herbeck and Vincent Grégoire -- Introduction / Jason Herbeck and Vincent Grégoire -- Les lieux ouverts et le royaume / Agnès Spiquel-Courdille -- Exiled in a Spiritual Geography: Albert Camus’s Road to Values / Raymond Gay-Crosier -- Réflexion sur le thème du plateau dans la vie et l’oeuvre de Camus / Vincent Grégoire -- Topographies suspendues / Guy Basset -- Tipasa and le monde: Metonymic Displacement in “Noces à Tipasa” / Jacquelyn Libby -- Formes et fonctions de la prison chez Camus / Sophie Bastien -- Paysages et d’autres réseaux de vie chez Camus / Steven Winspur -- The Cooper and the Painter: The Topography of the Atelier in L’Exil et le Royaume / John Walsh -- A Psychogeography of the Monstrous in Le Premier Homme / Lorenzo Giachetti -- Blanchot, Camus: une approche préliminaire / Thierry Durand -- Le tombeau parental ou « le temps d’un retour » dans Le Premier Homme d’Albert Camus et Adieu ma mère, adieu mon coeur de Jules Roy / Martine Benjamin -- Hemingway’s Influence on Camus: The Iceberg as Topography / Ben Stoltzfuz -- Bridging Consciousness: A Topographical Reading of La Chute / Jason Herbeck -- La Peste ou les métamorphoses d’Oran / Marie-Thérèse Blondeau -- Écrire le lieu qui s’inscrit: topographies toponymiques dans La Peste et La Chute / Matthew Moyle -- The Figure of the Labyrinth in “Le Renégat” and “La Pierre qui pousse” / John Lambeth.