Blood rushes toward the head of UFC fighter Chico Camus, turning the outer part of his eyes from a radiant white to an ominous red. His voice drops a couple of octaves. Camus slides downward in his ...
To read Albert Camus’s Notebooks – comprehensive, newly translated and expertly annotated by Ryan Bloom – is to enter ...
“The Stranger,” Albert Camus’ classic novel, which is about to celebrate its 75th anniversary in print, almost wasn’t published. Alice Kaplan, the John M. Musser Professor of French, recounts this ...
Published Thursday, on Camus' birthday, A Life Worth Living departs from the chronological approach that Zaretsky took in his first work on Camus, Elements of a Life, in 2010. Instead, Zaretsky tells ...
We were born at the beginning of the First World War. When we were adolescents, we had the Depression. When we were twenty, Hitler came. Then we had the Ethiopian war; the Spanish war; Munich. This is ...
The fledgling novel was full of Mersault’s thoughts about life, sex, beauty, and was provoked in part by Camus’s own travels in Europe, along with other events. The result was an over-freighted ...
The Eastern Sea isn't the first band to find inspiration in Albert Camus. The Cure famously based "Killing an Arab" on "The Stranger;" Titus Andronicus named a song after the writer/philosopher; and ...
Todd, right, with the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, whom he came to regard as something of a surrogate father - Jean-Claude FRANCOLON/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Olivier Todd, who has died aged 95, achieved ...