Introduction / Edward J. Hughes -- Biography and influences: Camus : a life lived in critical times / Ieme Van Der Poel. Situating Camus : the formative influences / Toby Garfitt. Autobiographical soundings in L'envers et l'endroit / Edward J. Hughes -- Themes, preoccupations and genres: Rethinking the absurd : Le mythe de Sisyphe / David Carroll. Camus and the theatre / Christine Margerrison. Camus the journalist / Jeanyves Guerin. Camus and social justice / Martin Crowley. Violence and ethics in Camus / Colin Davis. Camus and Sartre : the great quarrel / Charles Forsdick. Portraits of women, visions of Algeria / Danielle Marx-Scouras -- Texts and contexts: From Noces to L'etranger / Peter Dunwoodie. Layers of meaning in La peste / Margaret E. Gray. Withheld identity in La chute / David R. Ellison. Le premier homme and the literature of loss / Debra Kelly -- Postface / Edward J. Hughes.