Autobiographical Narration Of Camus’s The First Person

In the perspective of recalling, Camus’s posthumous works First person tell us that how hero Jacques growed into "the first man" without culture and history. The novel described Jacque’s childhood life, drawing the outline of his personal history with specific people and things. Jacque’s journey of looking for his father reproduce Algeria’s turbulent history, revealing the personal choice and confusion in that era.Growth with absent love, the silent maternal love is the deep emotional sustenance to Jacques. Camus narrate the process of Jacque’s confession to his mother to construct a real moral penitent. To some extent, Jacques is the incarnation of Camus.by narrate Jacque’s personal history, Camus construct his own life, identity, morality and attempts to record immigrants’forgotten truth, making the dialogue between small figure and big history. As an autobiographical novel, fiction is Inevitable. The Elegant details and delicate emotion in the text is deemed to present a real flesh and blood of Camus. This is to explain the dialectical relationship of reality and imagination between autobiography and autobiographical fiction. At the same time, the paper analyzes how Camus constructing his kingdom by narration, and explore how Camus examining and evaluating himself in reality and imagination.This article consists of three chapters. The first chapter "myth of self "includes the "mysterious birth", "childhood narration", "to be ’first person’".Autobiography writers always try to create a high personal myth, including identification of the self value of life, understanding the lesson of life experience,the formation of moral emotion. The first section is about symbolic meaning of Jacques’birth. His birth implies that he will save the poor. The love and goodness that Arabs perform is the ideal model that Arabs get along with French immigrant. The second section describes Jacques’gain and loss primarily through sufferings such as "poverty" "missing" "war" and good things such as "Sunshine", "sea". These are also Camus’ real experience.the prototype of Jacques’relatives, friends, mentor all can be found in Camus’s life. The third section explains the definition of Camus’"first person", and his thinking of self fate, history and culture.The second chapter mainly expounds explain various intention why Jacques seek to father. The first section explains Camus’understanding of colonial history and colonial identity, who recognize the world from father and son’s image in the novel, and regain identity of self with Jacques’ looking for father, "self in the history" includes "Historical truth and fog", "two generations of immigrants-Father and Son,""seeking Father-to regain the identity ".The first section mainly compares the real history and history of Algeria, and African colonial history which are described by Camus, and analyze the reason of variances differences. The second section mainly focuses on different times of father and son’s two generation immigrants, which creates different cultural identity and national sentiment. Father and son have never seen each other before, but they have mysterious constant contact across age, namely through blood continuation of justice and kindness.Western biography cannot do without the tradition of confession. The third chapter " self of confession "focus on Jacque’s confession to his birth mother and the mother of the culture, revealing Camus’s spirit, moral world. The first section discusses the significance of Camus’s mother, not only is emotional attachment, but also Spirit of faith. Analyze the silent symbolic meanings of Camus’s mother and explain Camus’s confession to his mother. The second section discusses Camus’s emotion to Algeria. He directly expresses his love to Algeria in numerous essays, letters and diaries. At the same time, he Analyze the influence of Algeria on the development of his thought, interpreting his confession discourse to the Algeria.The first person records Camus’s growth process, which we can learn about Camus’real life in Algeria, help us to understand his anxiety and fear of war and death, yearning for peace and happiness of life.Camus’family, friends, mentor in Algeria are all truly presented in the his works.his imagination about his father and looking for him, his love and dependence to his mother, the view on the national war of Algeria, all can be seen in this paper, the trace of Camus’s humanitarian and absurd ideas in creation can also be seen in this paper. But the "first person" is not entirely viewed as Camus’s autobiography, but an autobiographical novel. Jacque’s allegorical birth, writing of self-deification,explaining to the treacherous history, narration on the relationship between Algeria and French Blackfoot,people avoidance or denial of colonial offspring’s identity, all have a certain degree of imagination and fiction.