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' "The Plague," read in quarantine for the first time, warns us to reset our own priorities ... Some books are so venerated, so sacralized, they are almost forbidding to the touch.

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 ...

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 ...

I still hope that books from the past can be a kind of serum for the future, as Camus intended his novel to be. He knew that his book would be needed again, long after his death, in a context he ...

Celebrations are taking place to mark 100 years since the birth of Albert Camus. Here's what you need to know about the French writer's life and work Albert Camus in 1957, just after it was ...

“Exile and the Kingdom” by Albert Camus, translated by Carol Cosman, foreword by Orhan Pamuk (Vintage, $13.95). Four stories in this sharp new translation of the Nobel Prize-winning French ...

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 ...