Albert Camus: References & Edit History

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Biographies of Camus include Morvan Lebesque, Portrait of Camus: An Illustrated Biography (1971; originally published in French, 1963); Herbert R. Lottman, Albert Camus: A Biography (1979, reissued 1997); Patrick McCarthy, Camus (1982); and Olivier Todd, Albert Camus (1997), an abridged and edited translation of the original French (1996).

Bettina L. Knapp (ed.), Critical Essays on Albert Camus (1988), presents a collection of 15 essays, including one by Jean-Paul Sartre. Critical studies of Camus’s works and ideas include Jean-Claude Brisville, Camus (1959, reissued 1969); John Cruickshank, Albert Camus and the Literature of Revolt (1959, reprinted 1978); Philip Thody, Albert Camus, 1913–1960 (1961), and Albert Camus (1989); Germaine Brée, Camus, rev. ed. (1964, reissued 1972); Adele King, Camus (1964, reissued 1971); Emmett Parker, Albert Camus: The Artist in the Arena (1965); Roger Quilliot, The Sea and Prisons: A Commentary on the Life and Thought of Albert Camus (1970; originally published in French, rev. ed., 1970); Brian T. Fitch, The Narcissistic Text: A Reading of Camus’ Fiction (1982); Susan Tarrow, Exile from the Kingdom: A Political Rereading of Albert Camus (1985); David Sprintzen, Camus: A Critical Examination (1988); Philip H. Rhein, Albert Camus, rev. ed. (1989); Joseph McBride, Albert Camus: Philosopher and Littérateur (1992); Anthony Rizzuto, Camus: Love and Sexuality (1998); and Elizabeth Ann Bartlett, Rebellious Feminism: Camus’s Ethic of Rebellion and Feminist Thought (2004). Among numerous studies of individual works are Patrick McCarthy, Albert Camus, The Stranger (1988); Adele King (ed.), Camus’s L’Étranger: Fifty Years On (1992), a collection of original essays by leading Camus scholars; and Steven G. Kellman, The Plague: Fiction and Resistance (1993). Ronald Aronson, Camus & Sartre (2004), examines the split between the two authors. David Carroll, Albert Camus the Algerian: Colonialism, Terrorism, Justice (2007), examines Camus’s works in the context of the Algerian War of Independence.

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Add new Web site: BBC Sounds - Camus. Oct 23, 2024
Add new Web site: Wheaton College - Who Was Albert Camus? Sep 11, 2024
Cross-reference added. Feb 27, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Feb 20, 2024
Anniversary information added. Jan 01, 2024
Anniversary information added. Nov 03, 2023
Add new Web site: Swarthmore College Computer Society - Albert Camus. Oct 10, 2023
Add new Web site: University of Florida - George A. Smathers Libraries - Biography of Albert Camus. Jan 06, 2023
Add new Web site: Famous Authors - Albert Camus. Feb 28, 2021
Corrected display issue. Jan 07, 2021
Top Questions updated. Sep 11, 2019
Changed title of the "Assessment" section to "Legacy." Nov 15, 2017
Add new Web site: Imagi-Nation - Albert Camus: Biography, Plays, and other Works. Oct 20, 2017
Add new Web site: Imagi-Nation - Albert Camus: Biography, Plays, and other Works. Oct 20, 2017
Add new Web site: The University of Chicago Press Books - Camus and Sartre: The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel that Ended It. Sep 20, 2017
Add new Web site: The University of Chicago Press Books - Camus and Sartre: The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel that Ended It. Sep 20, 2017
Added cross-references. Dec 12, 2016
Add new Web site: The European Graduate School - Biography of Albert Camus. Sep 07, 2012
Add new Web site: The Nobel Foundation - Biography of Albert Camus. Sep 07, 2012
Add new Web site: The History Guide - Biography of Albert Camus. Aug 22, 2012
In the discussion of his father, deleted "of Alsatian origin." Aug 08, 2012
Add new Web site: h2g2 - Albert Camus and Truth. Jun 01, 2012
Add new Web site: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Biography of Albert Camus. Jun 01, 2012
Add new Web site: The Nobel Prize - Biography of Albert Camus. Dec 27, 2011
Add new Web site: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Biography of Albert Camus. Dec 27, 2011
Add new Web site: Fact Monster - People - Biography of Albert Camus. Dec 27, 2011
Add new Web site: h2g2 - Biogaphy of Albert Camus. Dec 27, 2011
Bibliography revised and updated. Aug 10, 2007
Article revised and updated. Aug 10, 2007
Article revised and updated. Jun 21, 2007
Added new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Biography of Albert Camus. Jun 30, 2006
Article revised. Jan 12, 2000
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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