Camus: The Challenge of Dostoevsky - Couverture souple

Davison, Ray

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0859895327 ISBN 13 : 9780859895323

Editeur : University of Exeter, 1997

Synopsis

This is the first full-length study in English of Camus's life-long fascination with the works of the Russian writer Feodor Dostoevsky. The purpose of the book is to demonstrate the ways in which Dostoevsky's thought and fiction served to stimulate and crystallize Camus's own thinking. Davison lucidly identifies the lines of divergence and counter-arguments which Camus produced as answers to the challenge of Dostoevsky's Christian/Tzarist vision of life. The traditional methods of comparative literary criticism are jettisoned in favour of the more exciting claim that Camus's literary and philosophical texts can be read as precise and detailed replies to some of Dostoevsky's central beliefs about immortality, religion and politics. The study ranges freely over the entirety of the works of both major writers.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ray Davison is Lecturer in French, University of Exeter. His published work includes an edition of Albert Camus's L'Etranger and Simone de Beauvoir's Une Mort tres douce.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Exeter
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0859895327
• ISBN 13: 9780859895323
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 254
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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