Kurt Blankschaen's article on Camus

Abstract for Kurt Blankschaen article "The Absurd Sun" in The Journal of the Albert Camus Society 2010: 72-92, written while a student at UD, presently a PHL grad student at Arizona State:

Interpretation of the image of the sun in Camus’ work is often tied to
either geography or politics. Scholars such as Micheline Tisson-Braun,
Alba Amoia, and John Erickson all make the claim that Camus uses the
sun to round off the geography of his setting or to make a point about
the consequences of actions in Algeria. Later scholars—William Manly,
A.D. Nuttall, and Peter Schofer—continue the emphasis of the sun as a
geographic role, utilize the sun as part of an internal ambivalence
constituting Meursault’s frame of mind during the murder, or establish
the sun as a literary metaphor for death. These views stem not only
from his essays “The Minotaur” and “Summer in Algiers,” but also from
Camus’ literary works, specifically The Stranger. These
interpretations miss out on the application of the sun as truth in
Camus’ larger philosophy of the Absurd. The benefit of reconfiguring
the sun as a new metaphor for truth—a metaphor of revolt—is that it
extrapolates and elevates literary or biographical themes of the
Absurd from The Stranger to a larger and clearer picture of Camus’
philosophy.