Camus: The Challenge of Dostoevsky
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Ray Davison (Author)
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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. Davison lucidly identifies the lines of divergence and counter-arguments which Camus produced as answers to the challenge of Dostoevsky's Christian/Tzarist vision of life.
The traditional methods of comparative literary criticism are jettisoned in favour of the more exciting claim that Camus's literary and philosophical texts can be read as precise and detailed replies to some of Dostoevsky's central beliefs about immortality, religion and politics. The study ranges freely over the entirety of the works of both major writers.
About the Author
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 tres douce.
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- Contributor: Ray Davison
- Imprint: University of Exeter Press
- ISBN13: 9780859895323
- Number of Pages: 254
- Packaged Dimensions: 145x224mm
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: University of Exeter Press
- Release Date: 1997-08-01
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: 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 tres douce.
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