Falling hard for Albert Camus all over again. By Wendy Smith . July 5, 2009 12 AM PT . ... He struck a chord in a world engulfed by war and despair with two books in 1942: ...

Albert Camus (1913-1960), the author of The Myth of Sisyphus, The Rebel, The Fall, and The Stranger, is sometimes regarded as one of the 20th-century existentialists, but he was more precisely an ...

Albert Camus in Paris following the announcement that he had won the 1957 Nobel Prize for literature. (AFP/Getty Images) By David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times Book Critic ...

EXILE AND THE KINGDOM (213 pp.) —Albert Camus—Knopf ($3.50). Nobel Prizewinner Albert Camus is a writer without small talk. His themes—life, love, death, man, God, time—are large and ...

They say you should never judge a book by its cover, but as a man intrigued by the concept of judgement, the French philosopher Albert Camus would allow us to make an exception. Happily the covers for ...

The book that catapulted me into Camus's early years was an autobiographical work undertaken at the very end of his life, which makes its eloquence doubly affecting. In intense and streaming prose ...

News about Albert Camus, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times. Skip to content Skip to site index. ... My 10 Favorite Books: Suzanne Vega.