Personal Writings

Summary

The Nobel Prize winner’s most influential and enduring personal writings, newly edited and introduced by acclaimed writer and Camus scholar Alice KaplanALBERT CAMUS (1913–1960) is unsurpassed among writers for a body of work that animates the wonderand absurdity of existence. Personal Writings brings together, for the first time, thematically linked essays from acrossCamus’s writing career that reflect the scope and depth of his interior life. Grappling with an indifferent motherand an impoverished childhood in Algeria, an ever-present sense of exile, and an ongoing search for equilibrium,Camus’s personal essays shed new light on the emotional and experiential foundations of his philosophical thoughtand humanize his most celebrated works.