Albert Camus: Solitude & Solidarity

by Catherine Camus

Albert Camus, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, died in a car crash in 1960. He was 46. He left a substantial but unfinished oeuvre of exceptional beauty and power. Writer, journalist, thinker, playwright and producer, Camus was a man of tremendous vitality, a passionate defender of freedom who put his art at the service of human dignity. He fought constantly against oppression and exploitation and set an example that is still worthy today. Using a combination of extracts from his works, photographs and other archive material, some published here for the first time, Camus's daughter Catherine leads us clearly but discreetly through the fascinating life and work of a solitary but universal figure.

"My children and grandchildren never got to know him. I wanted to go through all the photos for their sake. To rediscover his laugh, his lack of pretension, his generosity, to meet this highly observant, warm-hearted person once more, the man who steered me along the path of life. To show, as Séverine Gaspari once wrote, that Albert Camus was in essence a 'person among people, who in the midst of them all, strove to become genuine'."  — Catherine Camus

Genres: Biography, Philosophy, Nonfiction, History, Photography, Literature

224 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2010

Reviews

[ellen · Rating 5 out of 5]

I cried so hard while reading it, it felt so personal and intimate seeing his photos, documents, fragments of his letters, all shared by his daughter.

[Edward Sullivan · Rating 5 out of 5]

A handsomely designed and lavishly illustrated collection of photographs, manuscripts, letters, and documents devoted to one of my favorite writers and thinkers. A beautiful, intimate look at a brilliant man.

[Heidi · Rating 4 out of 5]

A wonderful selection of photos and text that has made Camus' life much more real to me. I'd like to give it 4.5.

[vinnie · Rating 4 out of 5]

cute!! i liked the quotes from his/his colleagues’ writing that correlated to the pictures :^D more of a picture book than a book book, but i adored it nevertheless

[Kak0srako · Rating 4 out of 5]

o camusie
fajne😘