Camus: A Life
by:
Olivier Todd (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099749110 (0099749114)
Publish date: November 1st 1998
Publisher: Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random
Edition language: English
From the Translator's Note: The present book is an abridged and edited English version of Olivier Todd’s biography of Albert Camus, which was published in France in 1996. While all relevant information about the life and work of Albert Camus has been retained, some material not of sufficient intere...
Camus had often told friends that nothing is more scandalous than the death of a child, and nothing more absurd than to die in a car accident. Narrative inevitability…I am not a biography reader generally, and I try to avoid too much authorial back-story, and the variety of literary criticism that a...