Albert Camus [1913-1960] at Maison d'Être Philosophy Bookstore

"The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself."
— Albert Camus

"The big question [that] Camus asked was never the Anglo-American liberal one: How can we make the world
a little bit better tomorrow? It was the grander French one: Why not kill myself tonight?"
— Adam Gopnik, New Yorker Magazine critic

"Camus [is] helpful in times when what matters is not to give up, despite a future that seems hopeless;
not to resign, but to continue to resist." — Nobel-laureate Günter Grass

Albert Camus was born 7 November 1913 in Algeria, where he became a journalist in 1938. He went to France in 1940 and worked for a brief time at the Paris-Soir newspaper, then went back to Algeria. His activities there resulted in exile as a 'threat to national security', so he returned to Paris and finished two books (published in 1942). During the Nazi Occupation, he worked for the resistance against the Nazis and became editor of the clandestine daily newspaper Combat in 1943.
His most important works were published in France during and just after World War II. His 1951 essay "The Rebel" sparked major controversy, including a bitter split with Jean-Paul Sartre [1905-80]. Camus won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957. After reporting on Algeria's war for independence from France, he died in a freak automobile accident near Paris on 4 January 1960.

"The Complete Works of Albert Camus" in 9 volumes [1983]
not found on Amazon.com or B&N

"Albert Camus: 1913-1960 - Una Tragedia de La Felicidad" [indep 2012?]

Una Tragedia de La Felicidad documentary about Albert Camus

55-minute documentary film in French with Spanish subtitles; includes home movies of Albert Camus with his family • Produced by Max Armanet & Philippe Cazer; directed by Jean Daniel & Joël Calmettes; narration by Jean-Lois Trintignant • still not listed at IMDb (2017)
watch 8/2013 upload [55:01] online at YouTube

"Requiem For A Nun (Requiem pour une Nonne)" [1956 stageplay]
adapted from the William Faulkner novel

"Lo Straniero" [1967 Italian feature film]
Directed by Luchino Visconti; starring Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Karina & Bernard Blier
VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available; full credits at IMDb

"Caligula" Hungarian-language movie [1996]
Written & directed by Sandor Nagy; credits from IMDb

"Le Premier Homme" [Italy 2011, France 2012?]
Written & directed by Gianni Amelio; based on the incomplete 1960 novel "The First Man"
by Albert Camus; won FIPRESCI Award at Toronto; credits at IMDb

second wife Francine Faure Camus [], married December 1940, widowed 1960
twin daughters Catherine and Jean [b. September 1945]

December 2011 'extreme sisyphus' cartoon from The New Yorker Magazine
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	Translated by Matthew Ward in 1988 Kindle Edition from Vintage/Random House [8/2012] for $6.95 Vintage 8x5¼ pb [3/89] for $8.05 Everyman's Library 8½x5¼ hardcover [2/93] for $13.83 Knopf 8x5¼ hardcover [3/88] orig $20.68 - out of print/used Recorded Books UNABR audio CD [5/2005] 3 disks out of prodn/used French-language original: Gallimard pb [3/2005] for $14.42 Folio mass pb [3/99] for $11.53
	"L'Etranger de Camus / Lu par Albert Camus" April 1954 audio by Albert Camus Ina/Frémeaux & Associés audio CD [4/2003] orig $25.99 - out of prodn/used
	"The Stranger: A Student Guide" [2004] by Patrick McCarthy Kindle Edition from Cambridge Univ Press [2004 edition] for $11.79 Cambridge Univ Press 7¾x5¼ pb [1/2004] for $20.39 Cambridge Univ Press 8x5 hardcover [1/2004] out of print/used
	"L'Etranger" [2010] by Albert Camus, read by Michael Lonsdale French & European Publns audio CD [7/2010] 3 disks for $80.96

	"The Myth of Sisyphus" & Other Essays [1942] Translated by Justin O'Brien Vintage 8x5 pb [5/91] for $10.80
	"The Rebel: An Essay On Man In Revolt" [1951] Vintage 8x5 pb [12/91] for $10.80 French original: Gallimard 7x4¼ pb [6/98] for $10.36
	"The Fall" [1956] Translated by Justin O'Brien, edited by Erroll McDonald Vintage 8x5 pb [5/91] for $9.00 French original: French & European Publns pb [10/82] for $14.95 Livraphone cassette [2000] for €16,25 via Amazon France
	"Exile & The Kingdom" [6 stories 1957] contains "The Adulterous Woman", "The Growing Stone", "The Guest", "Jonas, or The Artist At Work", "The Renegade, or a Confused Spirit" & "The Silent Men" Translation by Carol Cosman: Vintage 8x5¼ pb [2/2007] for $11.16 Edited by Erroll McDonald: Vintage 8x5 pb [11/91] for $11.01 Amereon hardcover [12/76] for $19.95
	"The Guest" [1957 short story] Creative Co. pb [4/97] out of print/used
	"A Happy Death" [1970] Translated by Richard Howard Vintage 8x5 pb [9/95] for $10.95

	"Notebooks 1935-1942" [1962] Translated by Philip Thody Marlowe & Co. 8½x5½ pb [1/91] out of print/used Random House hardcover [6/78] out of print/used
	"Notebooks 1942-1951" [1964] Harcourt Brace Jovanovich pb [1/78] out of print/used
	"Notebooks 1951-1959" [Gallimard 1966] French-language edition: Gallimard pb [4/86] used in USA
	"Notebooks 1935-1951" [1998] Marlowe & Co. 8x5½ pb [9/98] out of print/used
	"American Journals" [1987] Translation by Hugh Levick Marlowe & Co. 8x5 pb [7/95] out of print/used Paragon House 8½x6 hardcover [7/87] out of print/used

	"The First Man: An Autobiographical Novel" [incomplete 1960] Translation by David Hapgood The manuscript was found in the wreckage of the car in which Camus died Vintage 8x5 pb [8/96] for $9.60 French original: SODIS 7x4.3 pb [4/2000] for $10.36
	"Resistance, Rebellion & Death: Essays" [1960] Translation by Justin O'Brien Vintage 8x5 pb [9/95] for $10.40
	"Lyrical & Critical Essays" [1968] Random House 7x4 pb [1/85] for $9.60
	"Youthful Writings" [1976] Translation by Ellen Conroy Kennedy Marlowe & Co. 8x5½ pb [4/94] for $10.36
	"Between Hell and Reason: Essays From The Resistance Newspaper Combat, 1944-1947" [1991] Translation by Alexandre De Gramont; Foreward by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl Wesleyan Univ Press 8½x5½ pb [8/91] for $17.95
	"Camus At Combat: Writing 1944-1947" [2006] Edited by Jacqueline Lévi-Valensi Princeton Univ Press hardcover [2/2006] for $19.77

	"Albert Camus: A Biography" [1979] by Herbert R. Lottman Gingko Press 8½x4¾ pb [4/97] for $18.96 George Brazillier pb [3/81] out of print/used
	"Camus' Imperial Vision" [1981] by Anthony Rizzuto Southern Illinois Univ Press hardcover [7/81] for $18.00
	"Albert Camus On The Sacred and The Secular (An Introduction To His Thought)" [1987] by James W. Woelfel Univ Press of America pb [2/87] for $18.00 Univ Press of America hardcover [6/87] out of print/used
	"Albert Camus: Soleil et Ombre - Une Biographie Intellectuelle" [1987] by Roger Grenier Gallimard mass pb [4/91] out of print/used Gallimard 7¾x5½ pb [1987] out of print/used
	"Camus: A Critical Examination" [1988] by David Sprintzen Temple Univ Press 9x6 pb [2/91] for $26.95 Temple Univ Press hardcover [12/88] out of print/used
	"Albert Camus" [1989] by Phillip H. Rhein Twayne 8¾x5¾ hardcover [9/89] for $33.00
	"Albert Camus: Modern Critical Views" [1989] Edited by literary critic Harold Bloom [1930-2019] Chelsea House 9½x6 hardcover [4/2003] for $35.00 Chelsea House 9½x6½ hardcover [2/89] out of print/used

	"The Plague" [June 1947] Translated by Stuart Gilbert Kindle Edition from Random House Digital [8/2012] for $9.99 Vintage mass pb [5/91] for $7.22 Vintage 8x5 pb [5/91] for $9.36 French-language original "La Peste" Gallimard mass pb [2/72] for $17.34 French & European Publns mass pb [1947] for $31.30 NTC/Contemporary mass pb [6/47] out of print/used
	1992 movie {aka "La Peste"} Written & directed by Luis Puenzo; starring William Hurt, Sandrine Bonnaire, Robert Duvall & Raul Julia Garry's Trading Co. color DVD [2003] for $9.49 Artisan color VHS [10/94] out of prodn/used full credits from IMdb

	"Albert Camus: Philosopher & Literateur" [1992] by Joseph McBride St.Martin/Palgrave hardcover [10/92] for $35.00
	"Albert Camus: The Thinker, The Artist, The Man" [1996] by Stephen Eric Bronner Franklin Watts / Impact YA 9x6 pb [10/96] for $24.00
	"Albert Camus In New York" [1997] by Herbert R. Lottman Gingko Press pb [3/97] for $4.95
	"Albert Camus: A Life" [1997] by Olivier Todd, translated by Benjamin Ivry Carroll & Graf 9x6 pb [4/2000] for $12.80 Knopf 9½x6¾ hardcover [12/97] for $21.00
	"Camus: The Challenge of Dostoevsky" [1998] by Ray Davison Univ of Exeter Press 9x5¾ pb [1/98] for $38.99 Univ of Exeter Press hardcover [1/98] for $85.00
	"Camus: Love & Sexuality" [1998] by Anthony Rizzuto Univ Press of FL 9.3x6.3 pb [6/98] for $49.95

	"Introducing Camus" [1998] by David Zane Mairowitz & Alain Korkos Icon/Totem 8¼x5½ pb [11/2007] for $11.01 Icon/Totem 8x5½ pb [9/98] out of print/used
	"Camus: Portrait of A Moralist" [1999] by Stephen Eric Bronner Univ Chicago Press 8x5¼ pb [10/2009] for $18.00 Univ MN Press 8½x5¼ pb [4/99] out of print/used Univ MN Press 9x6 hardcover [4/99] out of print/used
	"Albert Camus and The Minister" [2000] by Howard E. Mumma Paraclete Press 8x5½ pb [5/2000] for $11.18
	"Literary Masters: Albert Camus" [2000] by Catherine Savage Brosman Gale Group hardcover [11/2000] for $55.00
	"Camus and Sartre: The Story of A Friendship & The Quarrel That Ended It" [2004] by Ronald Aronson Univ Chicago Press 9¼x6¼ pb [5/2005] for $12.92 Univ Chicago Press 9¼x6½ hardcover [1/2004] for $32.50 see also Maison d'Être Bookstore's Jean-Paul Sartre [1905-80] Page
	"Rebellious Feminism: Camus's Ethic of Rebellion & Feminist Thought" [2004] by Elizabeth Ann Bartlett Palgrave Macmillan 8½x5¾ hardcover [1/2004] for $75.00
	"Sartre and Camus: A Historic Confrontation" [2004] Edited & translated by David A. Sprintzen & Adrian van den Hoven Humanity Books hardcover [3/2004] for $33.58 see also Maison d'Être Bookstore's Jean-Paul Sartre [1905-80] Page
	"The Cambridge Companion To Camus" [2007] Edited by Edward J. Hughes Cambridge Univ Press 8¾x6 pb [5/2007] for $30.99 Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 hardcover [5/2007] for $95.00
	"Camus" [2008] by David Sherman Wiley-Blackwell 9x6 pb [10/2008] for $29.95 Wiley-Blackwell 9x6¼ hardcover [10/2008] for $71.22
	"Camus: A Romance" [2009] by Elizabeth Hawes Grove Press 8¼x5½ pb [6/2010] for $11.11 Grove Press 9x6 hardcover [7/2009] for $25.00 author's official website
	"Albert Camus: Elements of A Life" [2010] by Robert Zaretsky Kindle Edition from Cornell Univ Press [6/2011] for $14.72 Cornell Univ Press 8½x5¾ hardcover [1/2010] for $16.47
	"Albert Camus: Solitude and Solidarity" [2010] Edited by {his daughter} Catherine Camus Editions Olms English-language 13¼x11½ hardcover [4/2012] for $37.01 Michel Lafon French-language 13¼x11½ hardcover [10/2010] import/used Michel Lafon 33.6x28.8cm hardcover [10/2010] for €38,45 via Amazon.FR
	"L'Ordre Libertaire: La Vie Philosophique d'Albert Camus (The Libertarian Order: The Philosophical Life of Albert Camus)" [2012] by Michel Onfray Kindle Edition from Flammarion [1/2012] for €14,99 via Amazon.FR Editions Flammarion French-language pb [1/2012] for €21,38 via Amazon.FR
	"The Boxer & The Goal Keeper: Sartre v. Camus" [2012] by Andy Martin "They Should Have Been A Dream Team. It Turned Into A Duel To The Death." Simon & Schuster, Ltd. 7¾x5 pb [2/2013] out of print/used Simon & Schuster, Ltd. 8½x5¼ hardcover [2012] out of print/used Simon & Schuster U.K. hardcover [2012] out of print/used

	"Caligula" & Three Other Plays [1944-50] Translated by Stuart Gilbert includes "Caligula", "Misunderstanding" {aka "Cross Purpose"}, "State of Siege", and "The Just Assassins" Random House 7x4 pb [2/62] for $11.30
	"L'Etranger de Camus / Lu par Albert Camus" April 1954 reading by Albert Camus Ina/Frémeaux & Associés audio CD [4/2003] orig $25.99 - out of prodn/used

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Maison d'Être Philosophy Bookstore
Albert Camus
[1913-1960]