Algerian Chronicles - Couverture souple

Camus, Albert

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0674416759 ISBN 13 : 9780674416758

Editeur : The Belknap Press, 2014

Synopsis

More than fifty years after Algerian independence, Albert Camus "Algerian Chronicles" appears here in English for the first time. Published in France in 1958, the same year the Algerian War brought about the collapse of the Fourth French Republic, it is one of Camus most political works an exploration of his commitments to Algeria. Dismissed or disdained at publication, today "Algerian Chronicles, " with its prescient analysis of the dead end of terrorism, enjoys a new life in Arthur Goldhammer s elegant translation. Believe me when I tell you that Algeria is where I hurt at this moment, Camus, who was the most visible symbol of France s troubled relationship with Algeria, writes, as others feel pain in their lungs. Gathered here are Camus strongest statements on Algeria from the 1930s through the 1950s, revised and supplemented by the author for publication in book form. In her introduction, Alice Kaplan illuminates the dilemma faced by Camus: he was committed to the defense of those who suffered colonial injustices, yet was unable to support Algerian national sovereignty apart from France. An appendix of lesser-known texts that did not appear in the French edition complements the picture of a moralist who posed questions about violence and counter-violence, national identity, terrorism, and justice that continue to illuminate our contemporary world."

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

Camus s tortured words may profitably be reconsidered half a century later, with the benefit of hindsight as regards Algeria s traumatic accession to independence, which included the mass exodus of the territory s settler population. Algeria s history since 1962, and particularly the black decade of civil war in the 1990s between the military-backed government and Islamist rebels, also casts new light on these texts, underscoring their contemporary relevance. Camus s alternately angry and anguished engagement is made readily accessible to an English-speaking audience in Arthur Goldhammer s sensitive rendering As the Franco-Algerian memory wars continue to rage--significantly, the French state acknowledged that the 1954-62 events had been a war only in 1999--this new translation offers a welcome opportunity to engage with the political soul-searching of a major figure who, as the American historian James Le Sueur has argued, may have been wrong about Algeria but may also have been right to be wrong. --Philip Dine"Irish Times" (01/18/2014)"

Biographie de l'auteur :

Albert Camus (1913-1960), Algerian-French novelist, essayist, and playwright, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: The Belknap Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0674416759
• ISBN 13: 9780674416758
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240