I MET him first in Paris in the early days of June, 1945. He had published The Stranger, which I had read and arranged to publish in America, and was about to complete The Plague (of which my office ...

Albert Camus, a French-Algerian philosopher, argued in The Myth of Sisyphus that the search for happiness can obstruct true ...

Given the Panthéon’s function as the final repose for France’s greatest heroes, it’s perhaps not surprising that efforts are now afoot to relocate the ashes of writer and philosopher Albert Camus to a ...

Albert Camus, a Nobel laureate, penned raw, unflinching prose that challenged readers to confront existence. His works, like ...

The French existentialist Albert Camus wrote a series of letters to a German friend during World War II. The friend had become a Nazi. Here are a couple of excerpts that remind me of our time and ...

I first met Albert Camus in the fall of 1980, when I was a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania. I say met because it felt that personal to me. His 1942 provocation “The Myth of Sisyphus” was ...

Some writers speak to us through the window of their time—we need to get back to where they once belonged to truly focus on the shape of their ideas—and a few speak to us permanently, jumping, with ...

The notebooks of Albert Camus, the French philosopher and novelist, have been collected in a single volume for the first time. By Dwight Garner When you purchase an independently reviewed book through ...

Few writers kept their work as close to the subject of death as did Albert Camus, one of the greatest novelists and essayists of the 20th century, who met his own end in a road accident 55 years ago ...