Correspondence 1944-1959. Book by Albert Camus and María Casares

“French novelist, playwright and essayist, he is considered one of the most important post-1945 writers. He is considered the representative of “atheist” existentialism. He was born in Mondovi (now Drean, Algeria) on 7 November 1913. He studied philosophy and literature and was rejected as a teacher because of his advanced tuberculosis, so he devoted himself to journalism as a correspondent for the Alter Republican. During World War II he was an active member of the French Resistance in the Combat group. In 1947 he was awarded the Critics’ Prize. In 1957 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and three years later he died in a car accident in Villeblerin (France) on 4 January 1960.
– Publisher : DEBATE; 001 edition (23 February 2023)
– Language : English
– Hardcover : 1232 pages
– ISBN-10 : 8418056576
– ISBN-13 : 978-8418056574
– Product weight : 1.62 kg
– Dimensions : 16.5 x 6 x 23.8 cm
– Condition : Good condition

“These letters enkindle and transport us from beginning to end. Camus’s correspondence was missing this essential and unpublished piece, a continent of words that we had expected to be splendid and that is undoubtedly the most beautiful part of all”.Le Monde. “Equally lucid, equally knowledgeable, capable of understanding everything and therefore of overcoming everything, strong enough to live without illusions and united by the bonds of the earth, of intelligence, of the heart and of the flesh, nothing can, I know, surprise us or separate us”.
On 19 March 1944, Albert Camus and Maria Casares met at the home of Michel Leiris, when she was only 21 years old. She had begun her career two years earlier, in 1942, at Les Mathurins theatre. That same year, Albert Camus published The Foreigner. At the time, the writer was living alone in Paris, as the war had kept him away from his wife Francine, a teacher in Oran. Sensitive to the actress’s talent, Camus entrusted her with the role of Martha for the staging of his play The Misunderstanding. On the night of 6 June, the same day as the Normandy landings, they became lovers. It was only the prelude to a great love story that did not begin in earnest until 1948 and continued until the writer’s accidental death in January 1960. In the midst of their public life and their creative activity, their correspondence reveals the intensity of their intimate relationship, which they lived in the absence of each other. cross-correspondence reveals the intensity of their intimate relationship, which they lived in absence, in the enjoyment of shared days, in working together and in the search for, formulation and realisation of true love”.