Albert Camus in Paris following the announcement that he had won the 1957 Nobel Prize for literature. (AFP/Getty Images) By David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times Book Critic ...

Albert Camus speaks of happiness against a background of despair, and that is why his voice rings true. Aware as he is of the absurd, he stresses nothing like clear consciousness.

Falling hard for Albert Camus all over again. By Wendy Smith . July 5, 2009 12 AM PT . ... her intense investigation into his life and work grew “sporadic” in the 1970s and ‘80s.

Fifty years after his tragic death in a car accident at the age 47, the Albert Camus’ mystique is still alive. Maybe it is because the Algerian-born author was one of the youngest writers to be ...

Writing “The Plague” during the decimation of World War II, Albert Camus used disease as a metaphor for war — but also for war’s remedy.

For the modern American reader, few lines in French literature are as famous as the opening of Albert Camus’s “L’Étranger”: “Aujourd’hui, maman est morte.” Nitty-gritty tense issues ...