| The Dynamics of the Absurd in the Existentialist Novel Contributor(s): Baker, Richard (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820420794 ISBN-13: 9780820420790 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $51.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 1993 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Criticism | European - French - Literary Criticism | European - Spanish & Portuguese |
| Dewey: 809.393 |
| LCCN: 92038883 |
| Lexile Measure: 1240 |
| Series: American University Studies |
| Physical Information: 152 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In 1942, the French author Albert Camus, in an essay titled "The Myth of Sisyphus," wrote a comprehensive analysis of the absurd to explain his novel "The Stranger." Using Camus's essay as a matrix for the absurd, this book is a rigorous examination of other contemporary existentialist writers and their novels: the French writer Jean-Paul Sartre provides us with his important absurdist text "Nausea"; the Spanish writer Miguel de Unamuno, "Mist"; and the two American writers Richard Wright, "Native Son" and Walker Percy, "The Last Gentleman." Since "The Dynamics of the Absurd in the Existentialist Novel" is a comparative study, different authors are invoked from various cultures to demonstrate the vast viability of Camus's criteria for the absurd and to determine the interpretive results which can be gleaned from its application. |