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The stories behind the story of Albert Camus’s ‘The Stranger’ (and how it came to be published)
When Albert Camus’s L’Etranger was published in France in early 1942, no one, least of all its 29-year-old author, could have guessed the impact the book would have, then and in the future. The Outsider / The Stranger (Stuart Gilbert’s English translation, published in 1946, had different titles in different countries) wasn’t exactly a best-seller in its early years. It came to have a life of its own, but oftentimes, there was no separating the book from its writer.
It wasn’t just how the book came to be written, or the fact that Camus wrote it as the Second World War broke out, but because of the aura that surrounded Camus soon after the book’s publication. It coincided with the recognition of Camus as a key figure of the French resistance.
The Stranger continues to have a vivid afterlife. It became synonymous with existentialism, to Camus’s own chagrin, and it won its author fame and notoriety in equal measure. Henri Cartier-Bresson’s photos of Camus – the most enduring one with Camus in a trench coat, looking sideways at the camera, a cigarette dangling from his lips – were all taken between 1944 and 1945, after the War, and after the book was published (when Camus’s
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He is the second youngest to win the Noble Prize and he won it at 44, the youngest to win the prize is Rudyard Kipling who was 42.
He was a womanizer, it is said that he had multiple affairs while married to Francine, He was with Spanish actress Maria Casarès, Yvonne Ducailar, Lucette Meurer, & his friend Christiane Galindo, they were all actresses.
He joined the French resistance as an underground journalist.
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On Albert Camus
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