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Albert Camus, a Biography of the Great French Absurdist Author by Herbert R. Lottman, 1981 Paperback Book Published by Brazilier.
According to Herbert Lottman in his excellent biography, Camus referred to the work in progress, in all seriousness, as his War and Peace.
Camus's reticence on the Algerian liberation movement was all the more upsetting given the author's history of championing freedom causes in other countries.

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Albert Camus

I. Algeria

I’m here too late: in the day, in the year, in the century . . .

In the day because all the hotels are full and I end up tramping round in the dark, lugging my pack and money (all of it in cash, a great wad of hard currency), nervous of the hoards of youths who watch me meandering round, concentrating so intently on making it look as though I have lived here all my life and know exactly where I am heading that I soon have no idea where I am on the mapless streets of Algiers.

By the time I find a room it is too late to do anything except drag a chair out on to the balcony and gaze down at the still-warm street, the signs. Arabic: it looks like handwritten water, it flows. The characters have no beginning and no end. Even the sign for the Banque Nat-ionale d’Algiers looks like a line of sacred poetry: elongated, stretched out like a horizon of words. It is strangely comforting, looking at an alphabet that is totally incomprehensible, a liberation from the strain of comprehension. Plus there is nothing else to look at, no neon or bars, and nothing to hear.

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Albert Camus: Artist and Writer

Albert Camus: Artist and Writer William F. Birdsall January 29, 2017 Following are abbreviations used for Camus works cited in the text. Complete bibliographic information is given in the bibliography at the end of the text. This bibliography is followed by a list of other works cited in the text. ER1957 L’exil et le royaume, EK1957 Exile and the Kingdom (1957) EK2007 Exile and the Kingdom (2007) TF The Fall LCE Literary and Critical Essays MS The Myth of Sisyphus NB1935-1942 Notebooks 1935-1942 NPA Noble Prize Address R The Rebel RRD Resistance, Rebellion, and Death YW Youthful Writings Albert Camus and visual artists French author Albert Cams (1913-1960) was awarded the Noble Prize for Literature in 1957. He continues to retain a world-wide reputation as a writer of fiction, drama, essays, and journalism. This essay, directed at the general reader of Camus in English, presents Camus somewhat differently from the usual understanding of the man as a writer; I examine Camus’s commonality with visual artists. Camus’s bonds as a w

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The Rebel

During the last three or four years of his life, after the publication of The Fall, Albert Camus had a writer’s block which he was desperately trying to overcome when he died in an automobile crash in 1960 at age forty-six. Many events contributed to his inability to write. There had been the famous debate with Jean-Paul Sartre over terror in the USSR, from which, in the verdict of many Parisian intellectuals, he came away the loser. Then the French-Algerian war broke out, and his unwillingness to espouse the cause of Algerian independence diminished still more his reputation among the left. Awarded the Nobel prize just at the moment when the press was demanding that he state a clearcut position on Algeria, he found himself in the position of an old actor suddenly afflicted by stage fright, trying to speak his lines while a hostile audience was making for the exit.

That audience has never stopped deserting him. To be sure, his works have been consecrated in a Pléiade edition, his notebooks have been published, and Camus criticism continues to be a thrivi