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1. How does Camus write his illness into his imaginative work? In what texts does he do this?
2. Identify occurrences of the theme of guilt in Camus’s fiction and drama in addition to La Chute. How is the theme treated in each?
3. What features of North African topography and climate are featured in L’Etranger, La Peste, “La Femme adultere,” and “L’Hote”? How are they connected, explicitly or implicitly, to the themes of each work?
4. Sigmund Freud spoke of “civilization and its discontents.” What elements in Camus’s fiction, drama, and essays might constitute his version of “civilization and its discontents”?
5. Trace references to and appearances of a maternal figure in Camus’s writing, including the posthumously published works, and identify in each case Camus’s attitude toward these maternal figures.
6. What features of Camus’s career and work may have entered into the...

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1. Introduction
2. About Albert Camus
3. Camus at Work
4. Camus’s Era
5. Camus’s Works
6. Camus on Camus
7. Camus as Studied
8. Study Questions
9. Selected Bibliography
10. Copyright

1. Albert Camus