Translated by Matthew Ward.

Entries feature: a brief introduction to the work; discussion of the work's historical setting; an overview of the events of the time that the work was written; and the work in focus.

Presents complex critical portraits of the most influential writers.

Presents a myriad of viewpoints, so that modern readers can begin to grasp the complexities of Camus.

These essays on L'Etranger celebrate its continuing influence throughout the world.

Since its publication in France in 1942, Camus's novel has been translated into sixty languages and sold more than six million copies.

Few figures of twentieth-century French culture carry such an air of romance and intrigue as Albert Camus.

In this enormously engaging, vibrant, and richly researched biography of Albert Camus, the French writer and journalist Olivier Todd has drawn on personal correspondence, notebooks, and public records never before tapped, as well as interviews with Camus's family, friends, fellow workers, writers, mentors, and lovers.