The French novelist, essayist, and playwright Albert Camus (1913-1960) was obsessed with the philosophical problems of the meaning of life and of man's search for values in a world without God. His work is distinguished by lucidity, moderation, and toler...

Albert Camus is one of the best-known twentieth-century French authors. Born and raised in North Africa, after the beginning of World War II he moved to Paris where he intended to pursue his career as a journalist and aspiring writer. In 1942, with the p...

Literary scholars place Albert Camus as North Africa's first writer of consequence. A pied-nort, or French citizen born in Algeria while it was a colony of France still, Camus emerged from a decidedly tough, underprivileged background to become one of th...

Crime essays were first written by French Chevalier de Mailly in the early 18th century with his book 'Le Voyage et les Aventures des Trois Princes de Serendip.' He was soon followed by writers such as Voltaire with his 'Zadig,' Beaumarchais with his 'Le...

MATING By Norman Rush. Knopf. 480 pp. $23. However deep its migratory impulses, contemporary American fiction doesn't much like to travel beyond its own borders. Cultural hegemony has taken care of that: Why leave home in search of Hemingway's Spain or Fitzgerald's...