Albert Camus [1913-1960] at Maison d'Être Philosophy Bookstore

"The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself."
— Albert Camus

Albert Camus was born 7 November 1913 in Algeria, where he became a journalist in 1938. He went to France in 1940 and worked for the resistance against the Nazis and as editor of the clandestine daily newspaper Combat.
His most important works were published in France during and just after World War II. His 1951 essay "The Rebel" sparked major controversy, including a bitter split with Jean-Paul Sartre [1905-80]. Camus won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. After reporting on Algeria's war for independence from France, he died in a freak automobile accident near Paris on 4 January 1960.

"The Complete Works of Albert Camus" in 9 volumes [1983]
not found on Amazon.com or B&N

Caligula & 3 other stageplays by Albert Camus

"Caligula" & Three Other Plays [1944-50]
Translated by Stuart Gilbert
includes "Caligula", "Misunderstanding" {aka "Cross
Purpose"}, "State of Siege", and "The Just Assassins"
Random House 7x4 pb [2/62] for $11.30

"Requiem For A Nun (Requiem pour une Nonne)" [1956 stageplay]
adapted from the William Faulkner novel

"Lo Straniero" [1967 Italian feature film]
Directed by Luchino Visconti; starring Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Karina & Bernard Blier
VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available; full credits at IMDb

"Caligula" Hungarian language movie [1996]
Written & directed by Sandor Nagy; credits from IMDb

"Le Premier Homme" [DUE in 2011?]

Written & directed by Gianni Amelio; based on the incomplete 1960 novel "The First Man"
by Albert Camus; starring Claudia Cardinale; latest credits at IMDb

	"The Myth of Sisyphus" & Other Essays [1942] Translated by Justin O'Brien Vintage 8x5 pb [5/91] for $10.80
	"The Plague" [1947] Translated by Stuart Gilbert Vintage 8x5 pb [5/91] for $10.80 French original: NTC/Contemporary pb [6/47] for $8.95
	1992 movie {aka "La Peste"} Written & directed by Luis Puenzo; starring William Hurt, Sandrine Bonnaire, Robert Duvall & Raul Julia DVD/Blu-ray not available Artisan color VHS [10/94] out of prodn/used full credits from IMdb
	"The Rebel: An Essay On Man In Revolt" [1951] Vintage 8x5 pb [12/91] for $10.80 French original: Gallimard 7x4¼ pb [6/98] for $10.36
	"The Fall" [1956] Translated by Justin O'Brien, edited by Erroll McDonald Vintage 8x5 pb [5/91] for $9.00 French original: French & European Publns pb [10/82] for $14.95 Livraphone cassette [2000] for €16,25 via Amazon France
	"Exile & The Kingdom" [6 stories 1957] contains "The Adulterous Woman", "The Growing Stone", "The Guest", "Jonas, or the Artist At Work", "The Renegade, or a Confused Spirit" & "The Silent Men" Translation by Carol Cosman: Vintage 8x5¼ pb [2/2007] for $11.16 Edited by Erroll McDonald: Vintage 8x5 pb [11/91] for $11.01 Amereon hardcover [12/76] for $19.95
	"The Guest" [1957 short story] Creative Co. pb [4/97] out of print/used
	"A Happy Death" [1970] Translated by Richard Howard Vintage 8x5 pb [9/95] for $10.80

	"Notebooks 1935-1942" [1962] Translated by Philip Thody Marlowe & Co. 8½x5½ pb [1/91] out of print/used Random House hardcover [6/78] out of print/used
	"Notebooks 1942-1951" [1964] Harcourt Brace Jovanovich pb [1/78] out of print/used
	"Notebooks 1951-1959" [Gallimard 1966] French-language edition: Gallimard pb [4/86] used in USA
	"Notebooks 1935-1951" [1998] Marlowe & Co. 8x5½ pb [9/98] out of print/used
	"American Journals" [1987] Translation by Hugh Levick Marlowe & Co. 8x5 pb [7/95] out of print/used Paragon House 8½x6 hardcover [7/87] out of print/used

	"The First Man: An Autobiographical Novel" [incomplete 1960] Translation by David Hapgood The manuscript was found in the wreckage of the car in which Camus died. Vintage 8x5 pb [8/96] for $9.60 French original: SODIS 7x4.3 pb [4/2000] for $10.36
	"Resistance, Rebellion & Death: Essays" [1960] Translation by Justin O'Brien Vintage 8x5 pb [9/95] for $10.40
	"Lyrical & Critical Essays" [1968] Random House 7x4 pb [1/85] for $9.60
	"Youthful Writings" [1976] Translation by Ellen Conroy Kennedy Marlowe & Co. 8x5½ pb [4/94] for $10.36
	"Between Hell and Reason: Essays From The Resistance Newspaper 'Combat', 1944-1947" [1991] Translation by Alexandre De Gramont; Foreward by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl Wesleyan Univ Press 8½x5½ pb [8/91] for $17.95
	"Camus At 'Combat': Writing 1944-1947" [2006] Edited by Jacqueline Lévi-Valensi Princeton Univ Press hardcover [2/2006] for $19.77

	"Albert Camus: A Biography" [1979] by Herbert R. Lottman Gingko Press 8½x4¾ pb [4/97] for $18.96 George Brazillier pb [3/81] out of print/used
	"Camus' Imperial Vision" [1981] by Anthony Rizzuto Southern Illinois Univ Press hardcover [7/81] for $18.00
	"Albert Camus On The Sacred and The Secular (An Introduction To His Thought)" [1987] by James W. Woelfel Univ Press of America pb [2/87] for $18.00 Univ Press of America hardcover [6/87] out of print/used
	"Camus: A Critical Examination" [1988] by David Sprintzen Temple Univ Press 9x6 pb [2/91] for $26.95 Temple Univ Press hardcover [12/88] out of print/used
	"Albert Camus" [1989] by Phillip H. Rhein Twayne 8¾x5¾ hardcover [9/89] for $33.00
	"Albert Camus: Modern Critical Views" [1989] Edited by Harold Bloom Chelsea House hardcover [2/89] for $34.95

	"Albert Camus: Philosopher & Literateur" [1992] by Joseph McBride St.Martin/Palgrave hardcover [10/92] for $35.00
	"Albert Camus: The Thinker, The Artist, The Man" [1996] by Stephen Eric Bronner Franklin Watts / Impact YA 9x6 pb [10/96] for $24.00
	"Albert Camus In New York" [1997] by Herbert R. Lottman Gingko Press pb [3/97] for $4.95
	"Albert Camus: A Life" [1997] by Olivier Todd, translated by Benjamin Ivry Carroll & Graf 9x6 pb [4/2000] for $12.80 Knopf 9½x6¾ hardcover [12/97] for $21.00
	"Camus: The Challenge of Dostoevsky" [1998] by Ray Davison Univ of Exeter Press 9x5¾ pb [1/98] for $38.99 Univ of Exeter Press hardcover [1/98] for $85.00
	"Camus: Love & Sexuality" [1998] by Anthony Rizzuto Univ Press of FL 9.3x6.3 pb [6/98] for $49.95

	"The Stranger" {aka 'The Outsider'} [Gallimard 1942] Translated by Matthew Ward in 1988 Vintage 8x5¼ pb [3/89] for $9.95 Everyman's Library 8½x5¼ hardcover [2/93] for $10.88 Knopf hardcover [3/88] for $15.75 Recorded Books UNABR audio CD [5/2005] 3 disks for $13.59 French original: Gallimard pb [3/2005] for $8.75 Folio pb [3/99] for $8.75
	"The Stranger: A Student Guide" [2004] by Patrick McCarthy Cambridge Univ Press 7¾x5¼ pb [1/2004] for $14.99 Cambridge Univ Press 8x5 hardcover [1/2004] for $45.00
	"L'etranger de Camus / Lu Par Albert Camus" April 1954 audio by Albert Camus Ina/Frémeaux & Associés audio CD [4/2003] for $25.99

	"Introducing Camus" [1998] by David Zane Mairowitz & Alain Korkos Icon/Totem 8¼x5½ pb [11/2007] for $11.01 Icon/Totem 8x5½ pb [9/98] out of print/used
	"Camus: Portrait of A Moralist" [1999] by Stephen Eric Bronner Univ MN Press 8½x5.3 pb [4/99] for $14.95
	"Albert Camus and The Minister" [2000] by Howard E. Mumma Paraclete Press 8x5½ pb [5/2000] for $11.18
	"Literary Masters: Albert Camus" [2000] by Catherine Savage Brosman Gale Group hardcover [11/2000] for $55.00
	"Camus and Sartre: The Story of A Friendship & The Quarrel That Ended It" [2004] by Ronald Aronson Univ Chicago Press 9¼x6¼ pb [5/2005] for $12.92 Univ Chicago Press 9¼x6½ hardcover [1/2004] for $32.50
	"Rebellious Feminism: Camus's Ethic of Rebellion & Feminist Thought" [2004] by Elizabeth Ann Bartlett Palgrave Macmillan 8½x5¾ hardcover [1/2004] for $75.00
	"Sartre and Camus: A Historic Confrontation" [2004] Edited & translated by David A. Sprintzen & Adrian van den Hoven Humanity Books hardcover [3/2004] for $33.58 Maison d'Être Bookstore's Jean-Paul Sartre [1905-80] Page
	"The Cambridge Companion To Camus" [2007] Edited by Edward J. Hughes Cambridge Univ Press 8¾x6 pb [5/2007] for $30.99 Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 hardcover [5/2007] for $95.00
	"Camus" [2008] by David Sherman Wiley-Blackwell 9x6 pb [10/2008] for $29.95 Wiley-Blackwell 9x6¼ hardcover [10/2008] for $71.22
	"Camus: A Romance" [2009] by Elizabeth Hawes Grove Press pb [DUE June 2010] for $11.20 Grove Press 9x6 hardcover [7/2009] for $16.50 author's official website
	"Albert Camus: Elements of A Life" [2010] by Robert Zaretsky Cornell Univ Press 8½x5¾ hardcover [1/2010] for $16.47

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