The Originality and Complexity of Albert Camus’s Writings

MICHAEL Y. BENNETT University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA MATTHEW H. BOWKER Medaille College, USA JENNIFER STAFFORD BROWN Whitworth University, USA THOMAS EPSTEIN Boston College, USA ARACELI HERNÁNDEZ-LAROCHE Georgian Court University, USA MAMADOU ABDOULAYE LY Mary Immaculate College, Ireland AURÉLIE PALUD University of Rennes, France EDMUND J. SMYTH Manchester Metropolitan University, UK 

PART I: LITERARY CONSIDERATIONS Camus, the Nouveau Roman, and the Postmodern The Complexity and Modernity of La peste Albert Camus's The Fall : The Vertiginous Fall into Language, Representation, and Reality PART II: PHILOSOPHICAL AND POLITICAL REFLECTIONS Camus's Unbeknownst Legacy: Or, 'I'm having an existential crisis!' Don't you really mean a Camusian crisis? Sisyphean (Out)rage and the Refusal to Mourn Albert Camus's Warring Twentieth Century: From his Ancestral Spain to his Mediterranean Utopias PART III: EVOLUTION AND INFLUENCES Prison, Plague, and Piety: Medieval Dystopia in Albert Camus's La peste Summer by Albert Camus: The Essay in the Mirror of Fiction Tormented Shade: Camus's Dostoevsky