“Revolt,” declared Albert Camus in 1951 in The Rebel, “protests, it demands, it insists that the outrage be brought to an end, and that what has up to now been built upon shifting sands should ...

In The Plague, Albert Camus sought expression through the novel of ideas. In 1."Homme Revoite he has scraped away the covering and laid bare the substance. Translated from the French, as The Rebel, ...

When I first read Albert Camus’s The Stranger as a college student in 1957, it went right over my head. I was clueless as to what this book was about. When I re-visited it twenty-five years later, I ...

The French writer Albert Camus died on January 4, 1960, in a car accident on his way back to Paris from his Christmas holiday in Provence. He was 46. The car was driven by Camus' editor, Michel ...

Serena G. Pellegrino ’23 is a resident of Lowell House. Her column appears on alternate Fridays. “Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to ...

“Even my death will be contested. And yet what I desire most today is a quiet death, which would bring peace to those whom I love.” Albert Camus’s prediction has been borne out—but not his hope. As ...