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Albert Camus
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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. 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.
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. 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.
Primary Works
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"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 |
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"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 |
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"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
full credits at IMDb
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"The Myth of Sisyphus" & Other Essays [1942] Translated by Justin O'Brien Vintage 8x5 pb [5/91] for $10.80 |
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"Caligula" & Three Other Plays [1944-50] Translated by Stuart Gilbert includes "Misunderstanding" {aka "Cross Purpose"}, "State of Siege", and "The Just Assassins" Random House 7x4 pb [2/62] for $11.30 1996 Hungarian language movie |
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"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 |
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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 |
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"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 |
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"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 |
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"Exile & The Kingdom" [stories 1957] 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 |
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"A Happy Death" [1970] Translated by Richard Howard Vintage 8x5 pb [9/95] for $10.80 |
Links to Camus-related Sites
Sam Gallagher's Camus Pages
Katharena Eiermann's Camus Pages
Albert Camus's 1957 Nobel Prize
C.S. Wyatt's Camus Page
Other Works
Albert Camus catalog at Amazon.com
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"The First Man: An Autobiographical Novel" [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 |
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"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 |
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"Notebooks 1942-1951" [1964]
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich pb [1/78] out of print/used |
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"Notebooks 1935-1951" [1998]
Marlowe & Co. 8x5½ pb [9/98] out of print/used |
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"Notebooks 1951-1959" [Gallimard 1966]
French-language edition: Gallimard pb [4/86] used in USA |
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"Resistance, Rebellion & Death" [1960] Translation by Justin O'Brien Vintage 8x5 pb [9/95] for $10.40 |
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"Lyrical & Critical Essays" [1968]
Random House 7x4 pb [1/85] for $9.60 |
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"Youthful Writings" [1976] Translation by Ellen Conroy Kennedy Marlowe & Co. 8x5½ pb [4/94] for $10.36 |
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"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 |
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"Camus At 'Combat': Writing 1944-1947" [2006] Edited by Jacqueline Lévi-Valensi Princeton Univ Press hardcover [2/2006] for $19.77 |
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"Between Hell and Reason: Essays From The Resistance Newspaper 'Combat', 1944-1947" Translation by Alexandre De Gramont; Foreward by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl Wesleyan Univ Press 8½x5½ pb [8/91] for $17.95 |
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"The Guest" Creative Co. pb [4/97] out of print/used |
"Neither Victims Nor Executioners" [1960]
Translated by Dwight MacDonald
World Without War Council pb [12/68] out of print/used
"Letters To A German Friend" [1945]
French original: French & European Publns pb [10/91] for $10.95
"Albert Camus: The Essential Writings" [1979]
Edited by Robert E. Meagher
Harper out of print/used
"The Possessed: A Play in Three Parts"
Translated by Justin O'Brien
Random House pb [3/64] out of print/used
Random House hardcover [6/60] out of print/used
"The Complete Works of Albert Camus" [1983] in 9 volumes
Works About Albert Camus
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"Sartre and Camus: A Historic Confrontation" [2004] Edited & translated by David A. Sprintzen & Adrian van den Hoven Humanity Books hardcover [3/2004] for $30.36 |
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"Rebellious Feminism: Camus's Ethic of Rebellion & Feminist Thought" [2004] by Elizabeth Ann Bartlett Palgrave Macmillan 8½x5¾ hardcover [1/2004] for $75.00 |
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"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 |
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"Literary Masters: Albert Camus" [2000] by Catherine Savage Brosman Gale Group hardcover [11/2000] for $55.00 |
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"Albert Camus and The Minister" [2000] by Howard E. Mumma Paraclete Press 8x5½ pb [5/2000] for $11.18 |
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"Camus: Portrait of A Moralist" [1999] by Stephen Eric Bronner Univ MN Press 8½x5.3 pb [4/99] for $14.95 |
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"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's Rebellious Thought: Legacy of Lucidity" [1998]
by V. John Bachman
Talus Titles pb [9/98] for $12.95
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"Camus: Love & Sexuality" [1998] by Anthony Rizzuto Univ Press of FL 9.3x6.3 pb [6/98] for $49.95 |
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"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 |
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"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 |
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"Albert Camus In New York" [1997] by Herbert R. Lottman Gingko Press pb [3/97] for $4.95 |
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"Albert Camus: The Thinker, The Artist, The Man" [1996] by Stephen Eric Bronner Franklin Watts / Impact YA 9x6 pb [10/96] for $24.00 |
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"Albert Camus: Philosopher & Literateur" [1992] by Joseph McBride St.Martin/Palgrave hardcover [10/92] for $35.00 |
"Albert Camus: Soleil et Ombre" [1991] by Roger Grenier
French & European Publns pb [10/91] for $14.95
"Albert Camus" [1989] by Philip Thody
St. Martin hardcover [11/89] out of print/used
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"Albert Camus: Modern Critical Views" [1989] Edited by Harold Bloom Chelsea House hardcover [2/89] for $34.95 |
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"Albert Camus" [1989] by Phillip H. Rhein Twayne 8¾x5¾ hardcover [9/89] for $33.00 |
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"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 |
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"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 |
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"Camus' Imperial Vision" [1981] by Anthony Rizzuto Southern Illinois Univ Press hardcover [7/81] for $18.00 |
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"Albert Camus: A Biography" [1979] by Herbert R. Lottman Gingko Press 8½x4¾ pb [4/97] for $17.46 George Brazillier pb [3/81] for $8.95 |
"The Spiritual Quest of Albert Camus" [1976]
by Richard H. Akeroyd
Portals Press 8¾x5¾ hardcover [6/76] out of print/used
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"Witness of Decline: Albert Camus, Moralist of the Absurd" [1973] by Lev Braun Associated Univ Press hardcover [6/73] for $36.50 |
"Camus: A Collection of Critical Essays" [1972]
Edited by Germaine Bree
Prentice Hall 9x6 pb [6/72] 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" [1964] by Germaine Bree
Umi Research pb [6/97] for $89.60
Harcourt Brace [1964] out of print/used
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"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 |
Audio & Other Media
Albert Camus credits on Internet Movie Database
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"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 |
"Lo Straniero" [Italy 1967] directed by Luchino Visconti
video not available; full credits from IMDb
Albert Camus Reading in French His Novels and Essays
Caedmon Audio 51138 [6/85] out of prodn/rare
"La Chute" {"The Fall"} [1956]
French-language Livraphone cassette [2000] for €16,25 via Amazon France
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"L'etranger de Camus / Lu Par Albert Camus" April 1954 reaqding by Albert Camus Ina/Frémeaux & Associés audio CD [4/2003] for $25.99 |
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