The dark Camus
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation explores a seldom-recognized dimension and seeks to complexify our understanding of an author renowned for his "solar" humanism. I begin with a reflection on the shifting, sometimes contradictory role of darkness in Camus's writings. Here I discuss texts like "Le Renégat" and La Chute to contrast more didactic, or typically "Camusian" works like La Peste and L'Homme Révolté in which battling images and metaphors of light and darkness clearly evoke the greater struggle between Good and Evil. The departing question, therefore, is what are we to make of this eternal dualism in Camus when it becomes blurred, and even inverted (the most renowned, and bewildering example of which is Meursault's murder in L'Etranger "à cause du soleil)"? By analyzing works from three distinct periods in Camus's career -- earliest essays, wartime, and last writings -- I argue that Camus suffered from the reputation he himself constructed as a, if not the "belle âme" of his generation. I subsequently trace the varying presence and intensity of his undoubted Shadow: an instinctive, irrational, sometimes violent, and ultimately, deeply cynical response to his equal calls for language, love, justice and measure under the sun.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2015 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Giachetti, Lorenzo Frederick |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of French and Italian. |
| Primary advisor | Apostolidès, Jean-Marie |
| Thesis advisor | Apostolidès, Jean-Marie |
| Thesis advisor | Galvez, Marisa |
| Thesis advisor | Wittman, Laura |
| Advisor | Galvez, Marisa |
| Advisor | Wittman, Laura |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Lorenzo Frederick Giachetti. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of French and Italian. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2015. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2015 by Lorenzo Frederick Giachetti
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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