Analyzing Camus' complete works from his earliest essays to his
posthumous novel The First Man (just published in English in 1996),
this book explores Camus' evolution as a writer through those
questions of love and sexuality that engaged him deeply throughout
his life.
Combining significant biographical material with literary and
psychological analysis, Anthony Rizzuto focuses on Camus'
distinctions between love and sex alongside his evolving concepts
of masculinity and femininity, the role of women in society, the
relationships between sexuality and social class, his attempts to
write love scenes, and above all his complex relationship with his
mother, who figures prominently in his work. He brings together
Camus' diverse and often disturbing depiction of love relationships
and creates a picture of Camus as an artist and a man struggling to
understand the implications of his ideas and his own erotic
behavior.
In the course of his career, Camus gradually realized that his
praise of sex often masked a fundamental inability to love. Sensing
nihilism and emptiness within his culture and himself, he
discovered a sick and discontented civilization "dying" for lack of
love. This work on one of the most important writers of the 20th
century will create interest not only among admirers of Camus but
also in the areas of literary criticism, philosophy,
psychoanalysis, and culture and gender studies.
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