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Albert Camus Aujourd'hui

De "L'Etranger au "Premier homme- Préface de Gilles Bousquet

Herausgegeben: Toumi, Alek Baylee

Beschreibung

Le 04 janvier 1960, Albert Camus s'en allait un peu dans un tragique accident de voiture à l'âge de 47 ans. Quatre années auparavant, il était l'un des plus jeunes écrivains à recevoir le prix Nobel de littérature pour toute son oeuvre. L'enfance pauvre à Belcourt, la passion du football, le journalisme à Alger Républicain puis l'exclusion et l'exil par la France de Vichy, Camus sera forcé de " monter " à Paris. Il rejoindra la Résistance et sera le rédacteur en chef de Combat . Romancier, dramaturge, essayiste, Camus sera aussi acteur et metteur en scène. Après la publication de L'Homme révolté , puis la rupture avec son ami Jean-Paul Sartre, il quittera Combat puis écrira des articles sur l'Algérie avant de se taire complètement, sans néanmoins cesser d'agir en silence. Certainement pas existentialiste, anti-communiste très tôt, il avait été l'Intellectuel de la période 45-60 d'après la libération, celui dont le nom finira par être opposé à celui de Sartre. Si Camus est mort jeune, il aura vécu pleinement sa courte vie; et s'il est encore difficile de le catégoriser, il reste encore d'actualité, soulève souvent des passions, ne laissant jamais indifférent. Peut-on parler d'un héritage camusien ? Que reste-t-il de son oeuvre en Amérique ?
Afin de ne pas oublier cet étranger si familier , pour le cinquantenaire de la mort de Camus, le Bureau du Doyen des Etudes Internationales et le Centre d'Etudes Européennes de l'Université du Wisconsin-Madison ont organisé du 22 au 24 avril 2010, un symposium Albert Camus, 50 ans après , autour des trois grands thèmes suivants: Camus et l'Algérie, Camus et l'exil, Camus et le public. Une quinzaine d'universitaires, de chercheurs, et de professeurs, d'Algérie, de France, du Canada et des Etats-Unis, étaient présents à ces journées dont nous publions les Actes dans cet ouvrage. L'objectif de ce second colloque était de créer un débat autour de Camus et de sa vision, souvent prophétique, relire ses écrits littéraires et politiques et voir dans quelle mesure son oeuvre pacifiste, peut être une source d'inspiration dans les luttes pour la liberté et la démocratie, une alternative à la violence et à la terreur qui demeurent aujourd'hui encore, hélas très actuelles.

Autor

Alek Baylee Toumi est professeur de langue et littérature françaises, et de littératures francophones à l¿Université du Wisconsin Stevens-Point. Il possède un PhD de l¿Université du Wisconsin-Madison où il s¿est spécialisé dans la littérature francophone, la civilisation française et le théâtre. Il est l¿auteur de Maghreb Divers (Lang, 2003) et d¿Albert Camus, précurseur: Méditerranée d¿hier et d¿aujourd¿hui (Lang, 2009). Poète et dramaturge, il a publié la trilogie Sartre-Beauvoir en Algérie: Madah-Sartre (2009); Taxieur: la libération miracu(l/ri)euse de Jean-Paul Sartre (2001): et De Beauvoir à beau voile (2005). Il est aussi l¿auteur d¿une trilogie théâtrale sur Camus: Albert Camus: entre la mère et l¿injustice (2004, 2012); Albert Camus: Exils d¿Alger et de AmeriCamus. Il a traduit et publié la version anglaise de Madah-Sartre: The Kidnapping, Trial and Conver(sat/s)ion of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir as Staged by Terrorists of the GIA-Group Islamic Armed (2007) et a écrit l¿introduction à The Last Summer of Reason de Tahar Djaout (2007).

Produktdetails

• Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures 201
• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 311849
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 165
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2012
• Französisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 380g
• ISBN-13: 9781433118494
• ISBN-10: 1433118491
• Artikelnr.: 35231245

Rezensionen

«In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Albert Camus's untimely death, this volume celebrates the unforgettable contributions and originality of the well-known writer. These superb essays examine his oeuvre, analyzing the diverse voices, complex cultural context, multiple interpretations resulting from translation, as well as themes including, but not limited to, freedom, violence, exile, political engagement, and the aesthetics of the absurd, offering thus a more complex cultural reading of the text. This volume represents a noteworthy contribution to francophone criticism as well as a significant engagement with a major writer, one who has indelibly marked both his generation and those that followed.» (E. Nicole Meyer, PhD, Professor of

French, Humanistic Studies and Women's and Gender Studies Coordinator University of Wisconsin-Green Bay)
«In the fifty years that have followed the death of Albert Camus, his legacy as one of Europe's most important intellectuals of the twentieth century has not diminished. Professor Alek Baylee Toumi has edited a significant collection of essays which examine the contemporary status of 'l'héritage camusien.' This volume of essays by established Camus scholars from Europe and North America also features the work of the newest generation of experts to analyze the creative and critical writings of Albert Camus. Speaking of his legacy, from the fifty years that mark his passing in 2010, to the centenary that will mark his birth in 1213, noted journalist Jean Daniel has said: '[...] today, the only question is about Camus', an observation that reminds us today that Camus's fiction and essays dealing with universal themes can still provide insight into the most pressing questions of the present-day era, namely, justice for the world's oppressed, the limits of political violence, and the role of the intellectual in the wider society. This volume will be a great asset to scholars of French and European Studies.» (Patricia Geesey, Professor of French, University of North Florida)
«The death of Camus remains opaque like the protagonists of his major novels, and the interest of posterity on his career grows by leaps and bounds. The memory of Camus is still inextricably linked to the passionate polemics with Sartre but the judgment of posterity seems to vindicate Camus almost on every point. The intellectual space for independent leftism of any kind in our time is quickly shrinking, but Camus stands taller as a political visionary because his view of freedom was untainted by Stalinism or other fashionable cloak-and-dagger theories. Camus' work has received its large share of diverse critical readers, an indication that the position of today's readers in relation to his work has also changed. The present volume is carefully crafted to introduce the timelessness of Camus' readings, and it should go long ways in inspiring a new generation of enthusiasts in the treacherous political waters of our times.» (Giuseppe Candela, Associate Professor of Italian, Arizona State University)"In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Albert Camus's untimely death, this volume celebrates the unforgettable contributions and originality of the well-known writer. These superb essays examine his oeuvre, analyzing the diverse voices, complex cultural context, multiple interpretations resulting from translation, as well as themes including, but not limited to, freedom, violence, exile, political engagement, and the aesthetics of the absurd, offering thus a more complex cultural reading of the text. This volume represents a noteworthy contribution to francophone criticism as well as a significant engagement with a major writer, one who has indelibly marked both his generation and those that followed." (E. Nicole Meyer, PhD, Professor of French, Humanistic Studies and Women's and Gender Studies Coordinator University of Wisconsin-Green Bay)
"In the fifty years that have followed the death of Albert Camus, his legacy as one of Europe's most important intellectuals of the twentieth century has not diminished. Professor Alek Baylee Toumi has edited a significant collection of essays which examine the contemporary status of 'l'héritage camusien.' This volume of essays by established Camus scholars from Europe and North America also features the work of the newest generation of experts to analyze the creative and critical writings of Albert Camus. Speaking of his legacy, from the fifty years that mark his passing in 2010, to the centenary that will mark his birth in 1213, noted journalist Jean Daniel has said: '[...] today, the only question is about Camus', an observation that reminds us today that Camus's fiction and essays dealing with universal themes can still provide insight into the most pressing questions of the present-day era, namely, justice for the world's oppressed, the limits of political violence, and the role of the intellectual in the wider society. This volume will be a great asset to scholars of French and European Studies." (Patricia Geesey, Professor of French, University of North Florida)
"The death of Camus remains opaque like the protagonists of his major novels, and the interest of posterity on his career grows by leaps and bounds. The memory of Camus is still inextricably linked to the passionate polemics with Sartre but the judgment of posterity seems to vindicate Camus almost on every point. The intellectual space for independent leftism of any kind in our time is quickly shrinking, but Camus stands taller as a political visionary because his view of freedom was untainted by Stalinism or other fashionable cloak-and-dagger theories. Camus' work has received its large share of diverse critical readers, an indication that the position of today's readers in relation to his work has also changed. The present volume is carefully crafted to introduce the timelessness of Camus' readings, and it should go long ways in inspiring a new generation of enthusiasts in the treacherous political waters of our times." (Giuseppe Candela, Associate Professor of Italian, Arizona State University)