I first met Albert Camus in the fall of 1980, when I was a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania. I say met because it felt that personal to me. His 1942 provocation “The Myth of Sisyphus” was ...

Can a person really be faultless? According to Albert Camus, the answer is no, but that is okay. The Fall is perhaps Camus' most enigmatic novel. It tells the story of Jean-Baptiste Clamence, a judge ...

EXILE AND THE KINGDOM (213 pp.) —Albert Camus—Knopf ($3.50). Nobel Prizewinner Albert Camus is a writer without small talk. His themes—life, love, death, man, God, time—are large and universal. He ...

Why Meursault’s emotional detachment in 'The Stranger' unsettles society, reshapes morality, and turns sincerity into a crime ...

In March 1946, Albert Camus, then 32, departed Le Havre, France, on a ship bound for the United States. Arriving in New York two weeks later, he was appalled but sanguine about what he saw: “At first ...

On Jan. 4, 1960, the world lost one of the most profound voices of the 20th century. Albert Camus, the 46-year-old author of “The Stranger” and “The Plague” and a recent winner of the Nobel Prize in ...

Make us a Preferred Source on Google to see more of us when you search. Add Preferred Source In late August 1944, Albert Camus, then 31 years old, gazed out on a city convulsing with the ecstasy of ...

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Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times. The notebooks of Albert Camus, the French philosopher and novelist, have been collected in a single volume for the first time.