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Albert Camus

A Question of Choice in Noir Fiction

By Gregory Galloway

October 12, 2021

Who’s in control of your life? You? Or someone or something else? It’s a heady question, asked about as long as humans have thought about anything, and it’s at the heart of crime fiction, especially noir. Much of crime fiction is predicated on inevitability (chances are the detective is going to solve the case, order…

Fiction Is The Lie Through Which We Tell The Truth

By Paul D. Marks

October 19, 2018

Does fiction matter when reality is so harrowing? Albert Camus, author of The Stranger, said “fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.” But is fiction, especially genre fiction — mysteries, thrillers, suspense, and romance — the place to talk about serious issues such as the contentious immigration debate or racism, or should…

Literary Noir: The Stranger by Albert Camus (1942)

By David Cranmer

September 9, 2015

Albert Camus’ (1913-1960) name is synonymous with literary excellence, earned from a reputation carved from milestones such as The Stranger (1942), The Plague, (1947) and The Fall (1956). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, bestowed in part “for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness, illuminates the problems of the…

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