In late August 1944, Albert Camus, then 31 years old, gazed out on a city convulsing with the ecstasy of long-desired liberation, and wrote, "Paris is firing all its ammunition into the August night.

Albert Camus’ Algerian Chronicles have never been presented, until now, in a full English translation, and this is a pity. The Chronicles contain his articles on Algerian themes for the French and ...

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 ...

These beautifully translated articles by Camus were originally published in the French Resistance newspaper Combat. In an introduction, David Carroll briefly analyzes the main themes: Camus' call for ...

Interesting piece in the LA Times about the 100th birthday of Albert Camus. Here's a snippet: Camus is famous for two works that plumb absurdity. In "The Stranger," Meursault senselessly kills a man — ...

MY LIBERTY is absolute,” said the nihilist to the Englishman. “There is nothing which prevents me from punching you in the nose if I wish to.” “Oh, yes, there is,” replied the Englishman, “Your ...

An office worker wakes up to an alarm at six in the morning, sits in two hours of traffic, and spends eight hours entering ...

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 ...