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Albert Camus

portrait of Albert Camus [1913-1960] (sepia)         short profile

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"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.

Albert Camus entry at Wikipedia
Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957


Primary Works

The Stranger novel by Albert Camus   "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 / Student Guide  
"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 audio  
"L'etranger de Camus / Lu Par Albert Camus"
April 1954 audio by Albert Camus

Ina/Frémeaux & Associés audio CD [4/2003] for $25.99

"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



Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus  
"The Myth of Sisyphus" & Other Essays [1942]
Translated by Justin O'Brien

Vintage 8x5 pb [5/91] for $10.80
The Plague novel by Albert Camus   "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
La Peste movie poster   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 by Albert Camus   "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 novel by Albert Camus   "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 stories by Albert Camus   "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 by Albert Camus  
"The Guest" [1957 short story]
Creative Co. pb [4/97] out of print/used
A Happy Death by Albert Camus  
"A Happy Death" [1970]
Translated by Richard Howard

Vintage 8x5 pb [9/95] for $10.80


Links to Camus-related Sites

Albert Camus entry at Wikipedia
Albert Camus's 1957 Nobel Prize
Albert Camus credits [1963-2011] on Internet Movie Database

Albert Camus Society of the U.K.
Sam Gallagher's Camus Pages
Katharena Eiermann's Camus Pages
C.S. Wyatt's Camus Page



Other Works
Albert Camus catalog at Amazon.com

Notebooks & Journals
Camus's Notebooks 1935-1942  
"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
Camus's Notebooks 1942-1951   "Notebooks 1942-1951" [1964]
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich pb [1/78] out of print/used
Camus's Notebooks 1951-1959   "Notebooks 1951-1959" [Gallimard 1966]
French-language edition: Gallimard pb [4/86] used in USA
Camus's Notebooks 1935-1951   "Notebooks 1935-1951" [1998]
Marlowe & Co. 8x5½ pb [9/98] out of print/used
American Journals by Albert Camus   "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

Essays & Posthumous Works

"Letters To A German Friend" [1945]
French original: French & European Publns pb [10/91] for $10.95

"Neither Victims Nor Executioners: Essays from Combat" [1960]
Translated by Dwight MacDonald
World Without War Council pb [12/68] out of print/used

First Man novel by Albert Camus   "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 by Albert Camus  
"Resistance, Rebellion & Death: Essays" [1960]
Translation by Justin O'Brien

Vintage 8x5 pb [9/95] for $10.40
Lyrical & Critical Essays by Albert Camus   "Lyrical & Critical Essays" [1968]
Random House 7x4 pb [1/85] for $9.60
Youthful Writings by Albert Camus   "Youthful Writings" [1976]
Translation by Ellen Conroy Kennedy

Marlowe & Co. 8x5½ pb [4/94] for $10.36
Between Hell & Reason by Albert Camus   "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
Albert Camus at 'Combat'   "Camus At 'Combat': Writing 1944-1947" [2006]
Edited by Jacqueline Lévi-Valensi

Princeton Univ Press hardcover [2/2006] for $19.77

"Albert Camus: The Essential Writings" [1979]
Edited by Robert E. Meagher
Harper Colophon [1979] out of print/used

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

Camus anthology from Everyman's Library   "The Plague, The Fall, Exile & The Kingdom, and Selected Essays"
[2004] by Albert Camus

with essays "The Myth of Sisyphus" & "Reflections On The Guillotine"
Everyman's Library 8x5½ hardcover [8/2004] for $16.32



Works About Albert Camus

older Albert Camus portrait in color  
"Albert Camus and The Literature of Revolt"
[1960 classic] by John Cruickshank

Greenwood hardcover [9/78] for $56.99
Oxford Univ Press pb [1/78] out of print/used
"Camus" [1964] by Germaine Bree
Umi Research pb [6/97] for $89.60
Harcourt Brace [1964] out of print/used

"The Theatre of Albert Camus: A Critical Study" [1971]
by E. Freeman
Camelot/Methuen hardcover [1/71] out of print/used

"Camus: A Collection of Critical Essays" [1972]
Edited by Germaine Bree
Prentice Hall 9x6 pb [6/72] out of print/used

Albert Camus critique by Lev Braun  
"Witness of Decline: Albert Camus, Moralist of the Absurd"
[1973] by Lev Braun

Associated Univ Press hardcover [6/73] for $36.50

"The Spiritual Quest of Albert Camus" [1976]
by Richard H. Akeroyd
Portals Press 8¾x5¾ hardcover [6/76] out of print/used

Albert Camus bio by Herbert R. Lottman   "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
Imperial Vision by Anthony Rizzuto   "Camus' Imperial Vision" [1981]
by Anthony Rizzuto

Southern Illinois Univ Press hardcover [7/81] for $18.00
Albert Camus critique by James W. Woelfel   "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
Albert Camus critique by David Sprintzen   "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 bio by Phillip H. Rhein   "Albert Camus" [1989]
by Phillip H. Rhein

Twayne 8¾x5¾ hardcover [9/89] for $33.00
Albert Camus critiques edited by Harold Bloom   "Albert Camus: Modern Critical Views" [1989]
Edited by Harold Bloom

Chelsea House hardcover [2/89] for $34.95
"Albert Camus" [1989] by Philip Thody
St. Martin hardcover [11/89] out of print/used

"Albert Camus: Soleil et Ombre" [1991] by Roger Grenier
French & European Publns pb [10/91] for $14.95

Albert Camus bio by Joseph McBride   "Albert Camus: Philosopher & Literateur" [1992]
by Joseph McBride

St.Martin/Palgrave hardcover [10/92] for $35.00
Albert Camus YA bio by Stephen Eric Bronner   "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   "Albert Camus In New York" [1997]
by Herbert R. Lottman

Gingko Press pb [3/97] for $4.95
Albert Camus bio by Olivier Todd   "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

Albert Camus & Dostoevsky   "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
Albert Camus Love & Sexuality   "Camus: Love & Sexuality" [1998]
by Anthony Rizzuto

Univ Press of FL 9.3x6.3 pb [6/98] for $49.95

"Camus's Rebellious Thought: Legacy of Lucidity" [1998]
by V. John Bachman
Talus Titles pb [9/98] for $12.95

Introducing Albert Camus   "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
Albert Camus bio by Stephen Eric Bronner   "Camus: Portrait of A Moralist" [1999]
by Stephen Eric Bronner

Univ MN Press 8½x5.3 pb [4/99] for $14.95
Albert Camus & The Minister by Howard E. Mumma   "Albert Camus and The Minister" [2000]
by Howard E. Mumma

Paraclete Press 8x5½ pb [5/2000] for $11.18
Albert Camus bio by Catherine Savage Brosman   "Literary Masters: Albert Camus" [2000]
by Catherine Savage Brosman

Gale Group hardcover [11/2000] for $55.00
Camus & Sartre by Ronald Aronson   "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 by Elizabeth Ann Bartlett   "Rebellious Feminism: Camus's Ethic of Rebellion & Feminist Thought" [2004]
by Elizabeth Ann Bartlett

Palgrave Macmillan 8½x5¾ hardcover [1/2004] for $75.00
Sartre & Camus book by David Sprintzen & Adrian van den Hoven   "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
Cambridge Companion To Camus book edited by Edward J. Hughes   "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
Albert Camus biography by David Sherman  "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 book by Elizabeth Hawes   "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 biography by Robert Zaretsky   "Albert Camus: Elements of A Life" [2010]  
by Robert Zaretsky

Cornell Univ Press 8½x5¾ hardcover [1/2010] for $16.47


Plays, Audio & Other Media

Albert Camus credits [1963-2011] on Internet Movie Database

"Caligula" [written 1938, performed 1945]

"The Misunderstanding (Le Malentendu)" [1944]

"The State of Siege (L' Etat de Siege)" [1948]

"The Just Assassins (Les Justes)" [1949]

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

L'etranger audio  
"L'Etranger de Camus / Lu Par Albert Camus"
April 1954 reading by Albert Camus

Ina/Frémeaux & Associés audio CD
[4/2003] for $25.99

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

"The Possessed: A Play in Three Parts" [1959]
adapted from the Dostoevsky novel; translated by Justin O'Brien
Random House pb [3/64] out of print/used
Random House hardcover [6/60] out of print/used

Albert Camus Reading in French His Novels and Essays
Caedmon Audio 51138 [6/85] out of prodn/rare

"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

La Peste poster   "The Plague" [1992 movie, aka 'La Peste']
Written & directed by Luis Puenzo; starring William
Hurt, Sandrine Bonnaire, Robert Duvall & Raul Julia
Artisan color VHS [10/94] out of stock/used
full credits from 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



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