Volume 41, Number 16 · October 6, 1994
The Lost World of Albert Camus
By Tony Judt
Le premier homme
by Albert Camus
Gallimard, 331 pp., FF 110 (paper)
Albert Camus died in a car accident in France, on January 4, 1960, at the age of forty-six. Despite the Nobel Prize for Literature, awarded him just three years before, his reputation was in decline. At the time of the award critics fell over one another to bury its recipient; from the right Jacques Laurent announcing that in awarding the prize to Camus 'le Nobel couronne une oeuvre terminée,' while in the left-leaning France-Observateur it was suggested that the Swedish Academy may have believed it was picking out a young writer, but it had in fact confirmed a 'premature sclerosis.' Camus's best work, it seemed, lay far behind him; it had been many years since he had published anything of real note.
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