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Forget Camus

Confronting the Humanist Myth

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Forget Camus

Confronting the Humanist Myth

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Albert Camus is broadly regarded as a philosopher of our time: a freedom fighter and a pioneering anti-colonialist. Oliver Gloag rejects the simplicity of this persistent image. A careful reading of Camus's three major novels – The Stranger, The Plague, and The First Man – reveals a deep-seated attachment to colonialism and the colonial way of life. Forget Camus argues that its subject's contradictions are central to understanding both his work and the meaning behind his enduring popularity. The legacy of the most widely read Frenchman in the world has been co-opted to present a flattering and false version of colonial history and is an obstacle to France coming to terms with its neocolonial present.

Forget Camus is a book about colonial history and a nation's literature that lays bare the ideological contradictions of French society past and present.

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Published 01 Dec 2026
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Pages 160
ISBN 9781836742708
Imprint Verso
Dimensions 210 x 140 mm
Publisher New Left Books Ltd

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