20th century and contemporary French literature
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Product details
- ISBN 9783034300063
- Weight: 270g
- Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 17 Feb 2010
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book provides a depth-psychological, analytic reading of all Albert Camus’s imaginative literary works including his essays and reminiscences. The chronological procedure reveals an evolution of unconscious themes underlying the conscious views and attitudes to which Camus kept returning over the course of his life. Topics discussed in this study include the analysis of Camus’s rejection of morality as the enemy of affection and self-fulfilment; his atheism; the apparent qualifications in his opposition to terrorism; and his absolute rejection of the death penalty as an instrument of state terrorism. This group of attitudes is located in the Camus family nexus, both in their external and historical reference and in their emerging internal conscious and unconscious meanings, enriched by autobiographical references in the novels to Camus’s adult character and personal and political life experiences.
The Author: John Robert Maze (1923-2008) was an academic at the University of Sydney, Australia, teaching and publishing on psychoanalytic psychology and other aspects of psychological theory. His longstanding interest in the psychoanalytic study of literature led to publications on Virginia Woolf and on Fyodor Dostoevsky, including a monograph on Woolf. With historian Graham White he published biographies of two members of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal cabinet, Harold Ickes and Henry Wallace.
