This study examines how the sun and the sea in the works of Albert Camus articulate spaces that are both fictional and political. The analysis places the production of the Algerian and Mediterranean space in the larger frame of postcolonial debates. Chapter one, "La Mer et le so…
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Despite the diversity of responses to the Holocaust, most survivors and writers remarkably agree on the following: there is something absolutely unrepresentable about the Holocaust. There have been two predominant ways of explaining this. First, the Holocaust is thought to have …
Nous examinons l'interaction plus dynamique que certains Textes littéraires de la modernité établissent avec leur lecteur. Certains Textes littéraires modernes relèvent moins de la chose dite ou représentée, que du prétexte à établir une proximité du Dire avec leur lecteur et à …
This investigation examines the personal motives, ethics, and accountability involved in decision-making through an analysis of three historically diverse literary characters. Crime and Punishment and Hamlet offer protagonists who wrestle between emotional retribution and spirit…
Focusing on both the genre of the novel in the Western tradition and on the activity of reading novels, this dissertation develops a reading strategy—based on what is defined as complex irony—and then applies it to four twentieth-century novels that clearly manifest moral and ae…
This dissertation analyzes the different ways in which Algeria and Algerian identity are imagined in the work of four Algerian authors: Louis Bertrand, Albert Camus, Kateb Yacine and Assia Djebar. Although the struggle for Algeria was fought on multiple terrains—militarily, poli…
Rather than being a pure product of Metropolitan France, as most of Camus's critics generally maintain, Camus is the product of his native colonial Algeria, a European-Algerian culture which has distinctive features significantly different from that of Metropolitan France. The p…
A travers trois lectures sur le thème de l'Algérie, la présente thèse interroge la relation à la langue française d'un Juif-Français né en Algérie en 1930, Jacques Derrida, d'un autre penseur pied-noir, Albert Camus (1913–1960), et du poète algérien, Kateb Yacine (1929–1989). Ce…
L'œuvre littéraire est le champ de bataille où se livre un combat entre conscient et inconscient. De cette guerre du refoulement, il restera à jamais des traces, enfouies profondément dans le texte, quelque mines prêtes à exploser au grand jour. À titre d'éclaireur, ce mémoire p…
Pierre Grenaud's apparent conclusion in his chapter “Que penser de l'Ecole nord-africaine des lettres?” is that no significant literary community which could be classified as such existed in the French Algeria of the 1930s and 1940s. His analysis seems to indicate that during th…
This dissertation explores British, French, and African writers' recourse to medical metaphors in representing the crises of modernization. It traces the manipulation of highly charged biological doctrines within an imperial context where they became racialized and sexualized. I…
One of the first theses devoted to Camus' autobiographical novel, this dissertation probes the orphan legacy that triggers the ‘first man's’ search for origins. My first chapter traces themes in his last work through the three ‘cycles,’ or ‘myths,’ which organize Camus' œuvre, f…
Previous studies on Albert Camus have mainly centered around the writer's contribution to the Existentialist movement, and on research of a cultural nature where the focus was biographical or based on Camus's political “engagement” vis-à-vis the Algerian conflict. Through a care…
The purpose of this dissertation is to show the importance of Albert Camus's contribution to the concept of rebellion. Albert Camus was one of the first French writers to understand the limits of Marxism and to study thoroughly the concept of rebellion. The model he provides thr…
L'ascendance espagnole d'Albert Camus—tirée du côté de sa mère—est présente dans l'oeuvre de l'écrivain algérien. Dans ce mémoire, je me propose d'examiner la manière dont l'Espagne imprègne l'oeuvre camusienne. Mon corpus est constitué des deux pièces de théâtre de Camus qu'il …
La chute and the six short stories of L'exil et le royaume by Albert Camus constitute a sort of renewal of the author's art and thought. Having left the absurd behind, having experienced revolt, Camus now brings to the forefront a theme that underlies all his work, the essential…
This dissertation consists of a rereading of two writers (Malraux and Camus) who are often considered as existentialists. With a blanchotian perspective, I endeavor to read them differently, keeping in mind the analyses of Blanchot on language and literature. Blanchot adds his p…
This work seeks to provide a systematic comparative and critical analysis of the oeuvre of Emmanuel Levinas and Albert Camus, within a specific political context, i.e. intellectual resistance to totalitarianism. Such an account is both lacking, despite the abundance of literatur…