CAMUS & SARTRE: THE STORY OF A FRIENDSHIP AND THE QUARREL THAT ENDED IT By Ronald Aronson University of Chicago Press, $32.50, 291 pages REVIEWED BY STEPHEN GOODE Ronald Aronson’s detailed ...

“The cigarette dangles between the lips,” wrote Susan Sontag in her 1963 essay on Albert Camus in The New York Review of Books, “whether he wears a trench-coat, a sweater and open shirt, or ...

Camus remained a friend and financial supporter of RP until his death. Albert Camus’s book L’Homme Révolte (translated into English as The Rebel), published in 1951, marked a clear break between him ...

NOTEBOOKS 1935-1942 by Albert Camus. 224 pages. Knopf. $5. Albert Camus was briefly a Communist; later he was considered to be a disciple of Jean Paul Sartre's despairing existentialism. In fact, ...

By 1939, Camus had already left the Communist Party, but he remained faithful to the values of a popular front against fascism; he began to understand that essential reforms would never take place ...

Camus and Sartre aren’t the only midcentury writers the FBI kept tabs on. Earlier this year the website MuckRock posted the FBI’s 35-page file on author and misanthrope Gore Vidal, an ...

Camus had reached a conclusion similar to Monod’s about the “mor­tal decay” of Socialist thought in the Soviet Union, but his verdict was based on different evidence. One catalyst for Camus’s decisive ...

Albert Camus’ Algerian Chronicles have never been presented, until ... He had been a communist for a while in the mid-1930s who went on to become a free-floating “liberal” of the left ...