Index

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Abbas, Ferhat 86

absurd 38–55

vs. existentialism 75–76

Adorno, Theodor 37

agrégation 13–14

al-Bayyati, Abd al-Wahhab 106

Alger républicain 21–23, 26–27

Algeria 1–2

colonialism in 85–101

Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) 92, 100

Algerian War of Independence (1954–62) 1–3, 5, 25, 66, 89–101

Algerians (Muslims/indigènes) 2, 17

citizenship 18

integration with French state 5–6

second-class status 3–4

al-Ibrahimi, Sheikh Bachir 86

altruism, vs. narcissism 82

anarchism 106

anti-historicism 65–66

anti-Semitism 4–5

Arabs 3–5, 9, 17, 88–89

depiction in literature 43–51

Aragon, Louis 62–63

Arcault, Gustave (AC’s uncle) 10–13

art for art’s sake 15, 17

assimilation 24–25

autobiographical nature of Camus’s writings 15–16

Balain, Blanche (AC’s girlfriend) 29–30

Barthes, Roland 47

Baudelaire, Charles 15–16

Beauvoir, Simone de 72–74, 84–85

Berbers 3–5, 9

Kabyle people 25–27

Bloch-Michel, Jean 30

Blum, Léon 22

Blum-Viollette bill 18–19, 51, 86–88

bonheur 17, 54–55, 83–84, 89, 110–111 see also nature, communion with

Breton, Petit 30

Brothers Karamazov (Dostoyevsky) 69

Bruel, Francois 30

Bugeaud, Governor-General Thomas-Robert 3

Bush, President George W. 106

Calet, Henri 30

Camus, Albert 7, 16, 30, 57, 93

affairs and mistresses 53, 73, 83–84, 103

awareness of mortality 9–10, 17, 38–39, 51–52

call for civil truce 91–101

children 32

condemnation of Hiroshima 36–37

as cultural icon 107–109

death 84–85, 102–103

duality xxi–xxii

early life and family 1–2, 6–14, 16

education 8–14

feeling of the absurd 38–55

health 9–11, 20–21, 29–30, 38–39

journalism 21–22

legacy 103–107, 110–111

marriages and divorce 12–13, 20, 29, 46–47

nihilism 28

Nobel Prize for Literature 8, 100, 102, 104

pacifism 26–29

politics 17–21, 24–25

pseudonym ‘Nero’ 28

reformism 23–24, 26–27

relationship with Sartre 71–85, 88

resistance 29–36

reviews 71–73, 78–80

support for Kabylia, Algeria 25–27

support for naturalization of Algerians 6

views on women 73, 83–84

Camus, Albert, WORKS 14–17

‘Adulterous Woman, The’ 88–89

Betwixt and Between 10, 15–16

Caligula 9–10, 13, 20–21, 28, 39–43, 75

‘Century of Fear, The’ 63–64

‘Christian and Neoplatonic Metaphysics’ (thesis) 13–14

‘Defense of The Rebel’ 80–81

Dirty Hands 78

Exile and the Kingdom, The 88–91

Fall, The 31, 73, 81–85

First Man, The 8, 84–85, 93–100, 103–104

‘Greece in Rags’ (article) 25–26

Happy Death, The 20–21

‘Host, The’ 89–91

Just Assassins, The 19, 56, 66–68, 77–78

Les Meurtriers délicats 77–78

‘Letters to a German Friend’ 30–32, 56

‘Manifesto of Intellectuals in Favour of the Viollette Bill’ 18

‘Misery of Kabylia, The’ (articles) 25–26

Myth of Sisyphus, The 9–10, 14, 38–40, 51–53, 55, 61, 72, 75, 83–84

Neither Victims nor Executioners 62–66, 68–69, 77

‘New Social Contract, The’ 65

Nuptials 20–21

‘Nuptials in Tipasa’ 54

‘Our position’ (article) 27–28

Plague, The 9–10, 29–30, 56–62

Rebel, The 56–57, 68–70, 78–81, 105

‘Return to Tipasa’ 54–55

Revolt in Asturias (co-written) 19

Silent Men, The 6–7

‘Socialism Mystified’ 64

Stranger, The 6–7, 9–10, 14, 22, 39–40, 43–51, 71–72, 98–99, 104, 108–109

‘These men we have erased from humanity’ (article) 23

‘Towards Dialogue’ 65

‘Unfortunate Arrests’ (article) 24

‘World Goes Fast, The’ 64–65

Camus, Claude (AC’s great-grandfather) 1–2

Camus, Jean (AC’s son) 105–106

Camus, Lucien (AC’s brother) 1, 6–7

Camus, Lucien (AC’s father) 1, 6–7

Carroll, David 50–51

Casarès, Maria 83–84, 103

centennial celebrations 9

Char, René 103–104

Charles X, King of France 2

Chauveau, Jean 30

civil truce, call for 91–101

civilizing mission (mission civisilatrice) 9

Code Civil 3–4

Code Indigène 3–6, 18

colonialism 18–19, 23–24, 26, 50, 62–63, 76–77, 85–86

Combat 29–36, 73–74

communism 62–66, 75–76, 78–79

Communist Party 17–20

conquest of Algeria 2–3

Crémieux decree 4–5

Cuban revolution 78–79

Daoud, Kamel 108–109

de Gaulle, Charles 3–4, 34–35, 87

Defoe, Daniel 58

Deloria, Vine 105

demonstrations against colonial rule 24, 35

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich 69

École Normale Supérieure (ENS) 11–12, 72

El Kader, Abdel 3

elite Algerians, naturalization 6

enfumades 3

existentialism 38–39, 50, 73–76

Fate/Yazgi (2001 film) 109–110

Faure, Francine (AC’s second wife) 20, 29–30, 32, 53, 83, 103

Fery, Jules 8

films 107, 109–110

Fouchet, Max-Pol 12

France

anarchists 106

colonialism 2, 4–5, 9, 62–63, 85–86

conquest of Algeria 2–3

defeat in World War II 28, 30–32

German occupation 58

historical account of conquest of Algeria 3

summoning Algerians to French army 6

war with Indochina 77

French citizens of Algeria 2, 4–5

French Revolution 33–34

Gallimard, Michel 102–103

geography, linked to thought 69–70

Germain, Louis 8

god, belief in 59, 61–62

Grenier, Jean 8, 10–14, 17–18, 72–73, 103–104

Grenier, Roger 30

Guilloux, Louis 103–104

Hadj, Messali 24–25, 86–87

Hamida, Benthami Ould 6

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich 65–66

heroism 31

Hié, Simone (AC’s first wife) 12–13, 46–47

Hiroshima 36–37

Hitler, Adolf 22, 27–28

Ho Chi Minh 63

Indochina war 77

integration policy 5–6

intellectualism 84–85

Ivers, Mette 103

Jeanson, Francis 78–80

Jews, Algerian (Israélites indigènes) 4–5

Julien, Charles-André 99–100

justice 65

Kabylia, Algeria 25–27

Karsky, Serge 30

Le Bled (1929 film) 9

Le Panelier, France 29–30

Le Pen, Marine 105–106

Léger, Fernand 62–63

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich 62–63

Les Lettres françaises (journal) 62–63

Les Mandarins (de Beauvoir) 84

Les Temps modernes 77, 79–80

liberation of Paris 32–36

Macron, Emmanuel 105–106

Malraux, André 102–104

Manifesto of the Algerian People, The 86–87

Marxism 18

massacres of Sétif and Guelma 35–37, 87–88

Mauriac, François 33–34

meaninglessness of life 55, 59–60

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice 76

Meursault Investigation, The (Daoud) 108–109

mission civilisatrice (civilizing mission) 9

Mondovi, Algeria 1

Munich Agreements 27–28

Napoleon Bonaparte 65–66

narcissism, vs. altruism 82

naturalization of Algerians 18

elite 6

Jewish 4–5

nature, communion with 49–50, 54 see also bonheur

Nausea (Sartre) 71–72

Nazi Germany 32

Nazi occupation of Algeria 5

‘new world’ and ‘world that is dying’ 39

New York Times 103, 105–106

nihilism 42–43

Nobel Prize for Literature 8, 100, 102, 104

Nouvelle Revue française 10

O’Brien, Conor Cruise 50–51

Ollivier, Albert 30

Oran, Algeria 29–30, 58

Ouzegane, Amar 92

Padilla, Herberto 78–79

Paris, France, liberation 32–36

Paris-soir 29

Party for the People of Algeria 24

patriotism 31

Peroni, Victor 30

Pétain, Marshal 5, 28, 30–33

Pia, Pascal 21–22, 26–31

Picasso, Pablo 62–63, 73

pieds-noirs 1–2, 4–6, 9, 18–20, 27

massacres 35–37

Podhoretz, Norman 105

pogroms 5

political violence, opposition to 66, 77–81

Ponge, Francis 29–30, 39

popular culture 107–109

Popular Front 22–24, 110

popular music 107–108

prisoners 23–24

pupilles de la nation (wards of the state) 7

Quillot, Roger 83–84

Rapinat, Marcelle 30

Rau, Charlotte 30

razzias 3

rebellions 3

Renoir, Jean 9

resistance 29–36, 56–57

revolt 56–57, 62–66, 68–69

revolutionary violence 19

Robespierre, Maximilien Marie Isidore de 33–34

Sade, Marquis de 69

Said, Edward 50

Saint-Just, Louis Antoine Léon Florelle de 33–34

Sarkozy, Nicolas 105–106

Sartre, Jean-Paul 19, 47, 50, 63, 70–85, 88

Savinkov, Boris 66

Second Sex, The (de Beauvoir) 84

Sellers, Catherine 103

Sintès, Catherine Hélène (AC’s mother) 1, 6–7

Sintès, Catherine-Maria (AC’s grandmother; née Cardona) 1–2, 6–8

SintèsÉtienne (AC’s grandfather) 1–2

Soviet Union 92

Spanish Civil War 19, 22

suicide 51–52, 83–84

The Cure (pop band) 107–108

Theatre of Labour 19–20

Third Republic 3–4, 28, 34

Tipasa, Algeria 54–55

Tocqueville, Alexis de 3

Todd, Olivier 13–14

uprisings 6

VE (Victory in Europe) Day 35–37, 87

Versailles treaty 27–28

Vian, Boris 76

Viollette, Maurice 18–19 see also Blum-Viollette bill

wards of the state (pupilles de la nation) 7

Western civilization 64–65

‘will of the absurd’ 39

workers’ salaries 23

‘world that is dying’ and ‘new world’ 39

World War I 6–7

World War II 27–29

Yazgi/Fate (2001 film) 109–110

Young Algerians 6

Zaretsky, Robert 50–51