Camus, Albert | About Albert Camus
About Albert Camus
- INTRODUCTION
- FAMILY BACKGROUND, CHILDHOOD, AND EARLY YOUTH
- UNIVERSITY YEARS; FIRST MARRIAGE; BEGINNINGS OF A CAREER
- EARLY SUCCESS
- FAME AND STRIFE
- NOTES
INTRODUCTION
To many readers both in France and elsewhere, Albert Camus is one of the most likable and approachable of mid-twentieth-century French authors. He may also be the most famous: while books by the well-known Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir sold in the hundreds of thousands in French and in various translations, Camus had two titles on a top-ten list of twentieth-century French best-sellers assembled in 1970, L’Etranger (1942; translated as The Stranger, 1946) and La Peste (1947; translated as The Plague, 1948). Only Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, whose premature death in...
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