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While most biographers go to great lengths to maintain the illusion of their objectivity, Elizabeth Hawes's exhilarating reflection on the life of the visionary French-Algerian philosopher and writer Albert Camus is written from the point of view of an infatuated disciple. What emerges is a biography/memoir which poignantly examines Camus's remarkable life along with Hawes's enduring devotion to her hero. Using extensive quotations from his journal, interviews with surviving friends and family, and her own trips to visit locations which were important to his life, Hawes attempts to chart the rich interior of Camus's mental landscape in order to determine the nature of her fascination with him. In the process, she shares enough of her captivation for it to become contagious to the reader.
| Size | | Length: | 319 pages | | Height: | 9.3 in | | Width: | 6.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 20.8 oz |
Industry Reviews
"What Hawes does brilliantly is bring to life Camus the human being: the charming friend, the seductive womanizer, the lifelong outsider 'from somewhere else.'....[H]er book's greatest strength...[is] the passion of her engagement with her subject."
(07/05/2009)
"Hawes' accomplishment in CAMUS, A ROMANCE' is to get behind the limiting popular perception to disclose both the complexity of the man and the fluctuating trajectory of his career and reputation....[Her] account is thoroughly researched, and it mainly gains from her almost obsessive determination to evoke and understand her subject."
(07/19/2009)
"[It] is unusual is for a biographer to address a lifelong passion for her subject as directly as Elizabeth Hawes does in CAMUS, A ROMANCE. She has channeled her ardor into a rich hybrid of biography, literary criticism, intellectual history and memoir. Yet, despite its personal slant, her book's revelations are mainly about Camus."
(07/26/2009)
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