Early in life, HC
also saw both of her parents suffer racism. At three years old, she discovered what being Jewish meant in Oran. When her father, a military officer during the war, took...
Family and Intimate relationships
Ketaki Kushari Dyson
Though KKD
's father, Abanimohan Kushari
, studied economics at the University of Dacca (now Dhaka)
and worked as a civil servant, his true love was literature. He taught himself to speak French and German...
Intertextuality and Influence
Jennifer Dawson
For epigraph the book quotes Camus
saying that life is nothing but a long journey to find again, by all the detours of art, the two or three powerful images upon which his whole being...
Intertextuality and Influence
Anita Desai
AD
's work weaves together a wide range of cultural and literary references: the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgîtâ, as well as such European authors as E. M. Forster
, T. S. Eliot
, Dickinson
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Christina Stead
For Meanjin she wrote about the current falling-out in Paris between Camus
(who had taken an anti-Stalinist
line in L'Homme révolté) and Sartre
. For Stead neither writer was a good enough Communist...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Storm Jameson
Throughout this work SJ
glosses over such events as marriage, divorce, and illness in favour of examining her psychology and behaviour, her struggle to balance motherhood and a public career, the value of creative writing...
Timeline
By June 1946: Gilbert Stuart's English translation of Albert...
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By June 1946
Gilbert Stuart
's English translation of Albert Camus
' existential novel The Outsider appeared in print: the book's reputation in Britain preceded the translation.
“A Victim”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 2316, 22 June 1946, p. 293.
293
4 January 1960: Existentialist French writer Albert Camus...
Writing climate item
4 January 1960
Existentialist French writer Albert Camus
died in a car crash at the early age of forty-eight.