TY - JOUR
AB - REVIEWS 237 beginnings of something else. The last chapter focuses on the question of hospitality and the possibility for Cixous to return to Algeria, a place to which, paradoxically and painfully, she did not belong when she was there. It argues that returning is only possible on condition that enough of a separation has first been created with that to which one wishes to, or must, return. It shows how circularity at the level both of writing and of Algeria translates into the twofold possibility for Cixous to return there and for Algeria to find a place in her writing. [doi: 10.1093/fmls/cqw016] HUGHES,EDWARD J. Albert Camus. London: Reaktion Books (Critical Lives), 2015. 215 pp. £12.00. ISBN 978–1–78023–493–9. This biography provides a subtle portrait of one of France’s most iconic writers, whose artistic trajectory encapsulates most of the twentieth century’s social and political upheavals and still reverberates throughout current Algerian and French intellectual history. Hughes pays detailed attention to Camus’s Algerian background but also to his spe- cific drive to erect fiction and theatre against the conflicting and often destructive ideological waves that shook metropolitan France in the post-war period. Hughes weaves a lucid narra- tive that probes deep into 
TI - Hughes, Edward J. Albert Camus.
JF - Forum for Modern Language Studies
DO - 10.1093/fmls/cqw017
DA - 2016-04-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/hughes-edward-j-albert-camus-CMfHiNk412
SP - 237
EP - 237
VL - 52
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -