This is the first full-length study in English of Camus's life-long fascination with the works of the Russian writer Feodor Dostoevsky. The purpose of the book is to demonstrate the ways in which Dostoevsky's thought and fiction served to stimulate and crystallize Camus's own thinking.
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Camus: The Challenge of Dostoevsky
This is the first full-length study in English of Camus's life-long fascination with the works of the Russian writer Feodor Dostoevsky. The purpose of the book is to demonstrate the ways in which Dostoevsky's thought and fiction served to stimulate and crystallize Camus's own thinking.
This is the first full-length study in English of Camus's life-long fascination with the works of the Russian writer Feodor Dostoevsky. The purpose of the book is to demonstrate the ways in which Dostoevsky's thought and fiction served to stimulate and crystallize Camus's own thinking.
Ray Davison is Lecturer in French, University of Exeter. His published work includes an edition of Albert Camus's L'Etranger and Simone de Beauvoir's Une Mort très douce.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Camus and Dostoevsky: an Encounter in Profile 2. Dostoevsky and the Absurd Novel 3. Suicide and Logic: Camus's use of Dostoevsky's 'Judgement' and 'Moralite un peu tardive' in Le Mythe de Sisyphe. 4. Camus and Dostoevsky's Revels 5. Freedom and the Man-God: Camus and Kirilov in Le Mythe de Sisyphe 6. Two Tzars of the Absurd: Stavroguine and Ivan in Le Mythe de Sisyphe 7. Ivan and Metaphysical Revolt: the Shadow of the Grand Inquisitor 8. Camus and Les Possedes: Nihilism and Historical Revolt 9. From the Last to the First Man: The Challenge of The Underground Conclusion NotesBibliographyIndex