Albert Camus (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Olivier Todd
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1913-1960
- Setting: Algeria, France, the United States, and South America
- Principal Characters: Albert Camus, Simone Hié, Jean Grenier, Francine Faure, Maria Casarès, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Michel Gallimard, Pascal Pia, René Char, Patricia Blake, Mamaine Koestler, Catherine Sellers, Catherine, Jean Camus
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: France or French people, Authors or writers, Exile or expatriates, Literature, Writing, War, Adultery, Atomic bomb, Algeria or Algerians
- Locales: France, United States, South America, Algeria
When he toured the United States in 1946, Albert Camus found Americans “cordial, hospitable and indifferent, quickly happy and quickly forgetful.” French interest in the author of L’Étranger (1942; The Stranger, 1946), La Peste (1947; The Plague, 1948), and La Chute (1956; The Fall, 1957) has been fickle, but American readers did not quickly forget Camus, whose works in English remain in print and in demand decades after his death in 1960. Barely forty-four years old in 1957, when he became the second-youngest recipient (after Rudyard...
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