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Albert Camus: A Life.

About 2 pages (558 words)

Contemporary Review, June 1st, 1998

Olivier Todd. Translated by Benjamin Ivry. Chatto and Windus. [pounds]15.99. ISBN 0-7011-6062-4 Sartre once remarked that Camus was a cultured urchin, a man who, for all the classical elegance of his prose, really belonged to the back streets of North Africa, not to the sophisticated cards of St, Germain-des-Pres. The contrast between Camus the man with his streetwise drawl and the writer of gracious, discreet parables is curious. He does not seem like one at ease with himself. He moved relentlessly from woman to woman. He searched for a reason not to die and he lived under the shadow of deat...

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