They were coming for him / Berta Vias Mahou ; translated from the Spanish by Cecilia Ross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vias Mahou, Berta, 1961- author.

Contributor:

Ross, Cecilia, translator.

Standardized Title:

Venían a bucarlo a él. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

253 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Madrid : Hispabooks Publishing, 2016.

Summary:

Jacques (Albert Camus's alter ego) recalls the final years of his life. Famous for his opposition to any form of violence whatsoever, his ideas met with the disapproval of the intelligentsia of the time, and he found himself receiving numerous death threats-a situation that would trigger in him a recurring nightmare: They were coming for him... to kill him. Winner of the Premio Dulce Chacón de Narrativa, this novel offers an insightful take on Albert Camus's final years. Masterfully combining fiction and true facts, and with extracts from Camus's novels interspersed throughout the narrative itself, Berta Vias brings to life the process that led to the Nobel Prize-winning writer's intellectual isolation and ultimate abandonment. Book jacket.

Contents:

A Memory Dark With Shadows 11

The Bacillus of the Plague 21

A Mysterious Bond 43

Sons of Cain 57

Obscure Feuds 73

The Guardians of Honor 87

They Were and they Are Greater Than I 105

In the Name of History 127

An Impalpable Memory 149

The Danger No One Spoke Of 171

An Invisible Menace 193

They Were Coming for Him 207

Documentary Appendix 229.

Notes:

Novel.

Translated from Spanish.

ISBN:

9788494349676

8494349678

OCLC:

923550528

Publisher Number:

99968238545