Algerian chronicles
Camus, Albert (, 1913-1960)
Algerian chronicles / Albert Camus ; translated ; with an introduction by Alice Kaplan - Cambridge, MA : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press , 2013 - 224 p. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index
Preface. The misery of Kabylia. Destitution -- Destitution (continued) -- Wages -- Education -- The political future -- The economic and social future -- Conclusion. Crisis in Algeria. Crisis in Algeria -- Famine in Algeria -- Ships and justice -- The political malaise -- The party of the manifesto -- Conclusion -- Letter to an Algerian militant. Algeria torn. The missing -- The round table -- A clear conscience -- The true surrender -- The adversary's reasons -- November 1 -- A truce for civilians -- The party of truce -- Call for a civilian truce in Algeria. The Maisonseul affair. Letter to Le Monde -- Govern! Algeria 1958. Algeria 1958 -- The new Algeria. Appendix. Indigenous culture : the new Mediterranean culture -- Men stricken from the rolls of humanity -- Letter from Camus to Le Monde -- Draft of a letter to Encounter -- Two letters to Rene Coty -- The Nobel Prize press conference incident.
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 translation.
9780674072589
Algeria---Politics and government---20th century
Algeria---Social conditions---20th century
Algeria---History---Revolution---1954-1962
PS3553.A4344 / C67 2012
965.04 CAM
Algerian chronicles / Albert Camus ; translated ; with an introduction by Alice Kaplan - Cambridge, MA : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press , 2013 - 224 p. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index
Preface. The misery of Kabylia. Destitution -- Destitution (continued) -- Wages -- Education -- The political future -- The economic and social future -- Conclusion. Crisis in Algeria. Crisis in Algeria -- Famine in Algeria -- Ships and justice -- The political malaise -- The party of the manifesto -- Conclusion -- Letter to an Algerian militant. Algeria torn. The missing -- The round table -- A clear conscience -- The true surrender -- The adversary's reasons -- November 1 -- A truce for civilians -- The party of truce -- Call for a civilian truce in Algeria. The Maisonseul affair. Letter to Le Monde -- Govern! Algeria 1958. Algeria 1958 -- The new Algeria. Appendix. Indigenous culture : the new Mediterranean culture -- Men stricken from the rolls of humanity -- Letter from Camus to Le Monde -- Draft of a letter to Encounter -- Two letters to Rene Coty -- The Nobel Prize press conference incident.
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 translation.
9780674072589
Algeria---Politics and government---20th century
Algeria---Social conditions---20th century
Algeria---History---Revolution---1954-1962
PS3553.A4344 / C67 2012
965.04 CAM
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