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Article: Loving Albert -- a Portrait Born of Passion
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- July 26, 2009
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CAMUS, A ROMANCE
By Elizabeth Hawes
Grove. 319 pp. $25 It's not unusual for biographers to fall in
love with their subjects. After all, researching and writing a life
is a major commitment, longer and more intimate than some marriages.
What is unusual is for a biographer to address a lifelong passion
for her subject as directly as Elizabeth Hawes does in "Camus, A
Romance." She has channeled her ardor into a rich hybrid of
biography, literary criticism, intellectual history and memoir. Yet,
despite her book's personal slant, its revelations are mainly about
Camus.
Hawes, I can personally attest, is not the only student of French
literature to develop a crush on Albert Camus, the Humphrey ...
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