Building the colonial archive [Ressource électronique] : the case of Camus's Le premier homme

Highlights the works of Algerian author Albert Camus with a focus on his unfinished novel `Le premier homme'. Linkages between commemoration and memory loss; Contrasts of Camus' work with Tajar Djaout; Nineteenth- and twentieth-century intertexts employed by Camus in his novel; Illustration of Camus' selective memory and its implications on irrationalism.