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Robert Zaretsky. A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 2013. isbn 9780674724761
A Life Worth Living is Robert Zaretsky's second book on Albert Camus in five years. Like his previous book, Albert Camus: Elements of a Life (see WLT, Mar. 2013, 74), Zaretsky once again gives us a concentrated, wholly enlightening and insightful study on the life of this complicated writer and man. Zaretsky's books on Camus read more like critical biographies than they do literary criticism, and that's a good thing. Zaretsky's writing style is easy to follow yet scholarly and informed. Both books are relatively brief and can be read in a day or two yet thought-provoking enough to keep the reader pondering for a long time....