Exiles and Strangers: A Reading of Camus's Exile and the Kingdom
- ISBN-10
- 0814203531
- ISBN-13
- 9780814203538
- Category
- Literary Criticism / European / French
- Pages
- 164
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1984
- Publisher
- Ohio State University Press
- Author
- English Showalter
Description
"Five of the six stories had appeared in the United States in various mass-circulation magazines before the collection was issued in book form in 1958. Critics tended to find fault with certain of the stories, to prefer others, and to ignore the collection as a unified work—thereby fragmenting its message. Professor Showalter assumes the thematic unity that Camus identifies in the title, and undertakes a systematic study of the individual stories for what can be learned from each as a separate work and from the frequently noted obscurity of their endings—a device that, Dr. Showalter argues, helps to explain Camus’s durable and general popularity. For where there is obscurity, it is admitted as a difficulty posed by problems that are murky, insoluble, and real—a difficulty, not just for the reader, but for the fictional character and, implicitly, Camus as well. The note of perplexity with which Camus’s stories always end virtually demands that the reader formulate extensions beyond the text into real plausability—into our world, not his fictional construct"--From publisher's description.
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