The First Man.
| Publisher | World Policy Institute |
| Publication | World Policy Journal |
| Subject | International relations |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0740-2775 |
| Issues per Year | 4 |
| Volume | v12 |
| Issue | n4 |
| Published | 1995-12-22 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Reviewee | n/a | Albert Camus |
| Reviewee | n/a | David Hapgood |
| Author | n/a | Stanley Hoffmann |
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| The First Man in Rome | quickNotes |
The First Man is the final, unfinished work of Albert Camus. The manuscript - 144 handwritten pages - was found in the car in which he died at the age of 46 on January 4, 1960. It was published in France only in 1994. One can see why Camus' widow hesitated to release it. It was almost impossible to decipher (as the reproductions of several pages show), devoid of commas, full of corrections and additions. Many words are missing and many remain illegible, many sentences are incomplete, several characters are given different names. And it is only a fragment of what was intended as a much...
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