Album Camus

by Roger Grenier, Albert Camus

Albums de la Pléiade, n° 21

Contains 490 illustrations

Genres: Biography, Nonfiction

328 pages, Hardcover

First published April 2, 1991

About the author

Roger Grenier was a French writer, journalist and radio animator. He was Regent of the Collège de ’Pataphysique.

In his youth he lived in Pau, where his mother opened a shop selling glasses. During the war, Roger Grenier attended Gaston Bachelard's classes at the Sorbonne before actively participating in 1944 in the liberation of Paris. He joined Albert Camus in the newspaper "Combat" then in "France Soir". Journalist, he followed post-war trials which inspired his first essay in 1949 "Le Rôle d'accusé". Radio animator, writer for television and cinema, member of the Gallimard board, he is recipient of the "Grand prix de l'Académie française" awarded to him in 1985 for his whole work, more than thirty works at that moment, novels, including two best-sellers "Le Palais d'hiver" of 1965 and "Ciné-roman", Prix Femina in 1972, essays and memoirs. He is best known in the United States for his work "The Difficulty of Being a Dog" (Les larmes d'Ulysse), translated by Alice Kaplan. He is still writing and is a busy conference attendee, speaking about his works, literature, Gallimard, or his friends: Albert Camus and Brassaï.

(from Wikipedia)

Reviews

[Arni Snaevarr]

Excellent! (Lu en francais)

[Aiva B.]

Nuostabu!

[Frederic Frantz]

A beautiful book with plenty ofold pictures and couments. As there are so many, there is not actually much to read.