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Can I read Albert Camus and the Myth of the Trial on EtoBox?
Albert Camus and the Myth of the Trial by M. K. Yalom is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Albert Camus and the Myth of the Trial about?
A trial or courtroom scene has been a prominent feature in recent American theatrical productions. New York theatergoers will remember T h e Caine Mutiny Court Martial, Witness for the Prosecution, Inherit the Wind, T h e Andersonville Trial, T h e Crucible, and Requiem for a Nun. Although these plays are largely popular literature, they present a phenomenon more commonly associated with the serious works of such figures as Stendhal and Dostoevski, Kafka and Camus. The tribunal as setting and structure of a dramatic climax has become in the mid-twentieth century a familiar myth. Perhaps the most important single example of the trial motif is Franz Kafka's novel Der Prozess. His personal vision of the trial as a nightmare encounter with ambiguous representatives of a distant authority has so permeated the literary world that the very word "trial" is practically synonymous with Kafkaesque anxiety. The extent to which Kafka's trial provides the touchstone for later writers can be seen in the fiction of Albert Camus, which reveals both a reaction against Kafka and a partial identity with him. Camus's use of the trial scene within works as varied as L'Etranger, La Peste, La Chute, Rkfle
Who reads Albert Camus and the Myth of the Trial?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Arts and Humanities.
- Author
- M. K. Yalom
- Published
- 1964
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)