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Camus at Work

• EARLY COMMITMENT
• LITERARY APPRENTICESHIP AND HABITS OF WORK
• SOURCES OF INSPIRATION
• ADDITIONAL FEATURES OF CAMUS’S CREATIVE PROCESS AND IMAGINATION
• NOTES

EARLY COMMITMENT

Consideration of Camus at work in the early stages of his development, in which he made the transition from reader, philosophy stu-dent, notebook-jotter, and would-be novelist to author of original and publishable texts, can be guided by the following questions, asked by Jean Sarocchi: “How does a young man taken with literature become a writer? Or: how does the infection of egotism become purified through fiction? Or: how are texts filled with narcissism tempered … to become plays and novels?”¹

In a profound sense, no answer to these questions as asked of any artist can be...

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1. Introduction
2. About Albert Camus
3. Camus at Work
4. Camus’s Era
5. Camus’s Works
6. Camus on Camus
7. Camus as Studied
8. Study Questions
9. Selected Bibliography
10. Copyright

1. Albert Camus