The outsider book albert camus6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() In the Gallimard reception there is a small display of Camus first editions and a yellowing page 21 of the New York Times of 18 October 1957 headlined: "Albert Camus has just been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature." It is accompanied by a photograph of Camus by Henri Cartier-Bresson. Much of the material, she says, has never been published before. It is a hefty trove of photographs, drawings, notes, lletters, telegrams and extracts from his books and essays, documenting Camus's connections to and travels in Algeria, Europe, the Americas and Russia. ![]() ![]() On the desk is Catherine's book, Le Monde en Partage ( The World to Share), published to mark the centenary of Camus's birth. We are sitting in the tall-ceilinged former office of Claude Gallimard, son of Gaston, founder of the French publishing company that brought Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre and André Gide to the wider world.Ĭamus was being driven from Paris to his Provençal home by Gaston's nephew Michel, when the car careered off the road and hit two trees killing both menCamus, the author of La Peste and L'Etranger, was 46 when he died Catherine and her twin brother, Jean, were 14. It was horrible enough that he was taken away the idea that this was done deliberately is unbearable. He was Papa," she says, her voice faltering a fraction. "Was he killed by the KGB? I don't know and I don't want to know. ![]()
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