Camus

In this book Conor Cruise O’Brien reinterprets Camus as a writer who, more than any other, represents the Western consciousness, and conscience, in its relation to the non-Western world. In a close and brilliant analysis of Camus’s work Dr. O’Brien discerns a tension between Europe and Africa, submerged in the early works but coming more and more into the open; and he portrays Camus’s life as a great personal tragedy, a defeat for a generation.