On Camus

About the Book

About the Book Sartre met Albert Camus in Occupied France in 1943aEUR"an odd pair: onefrom the upper reaches of French society; the other, a pied-noir borninto poverty in Algeria. The love of aEUR~freedomaEUR(TM) brought them togetherquickly as closest of friends, and their fight for justice united thempolitically. But in 1951 the two writers fell out spectacularly over theirliterary and political views, their split a media sensation in France. Thisvolume is a remarkable mirror to that fraught relationship as it includesan early review by Sartre of CamusaEUR(TM)s The Outsider; his famous 1952 letterto Camus that begins, aEUR~Our friendship was not easy, but I shall miss itaEUR(TM);and a moving homage written following CamusaEUR(TM)s sudden death in 1960. About the Author Iconic French novelist, playwright and essayist, Jean-Paul Sartre (1905aEUR"1980) is widely recognized as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, whose work has remained relevant and thought-provoking through the decades. The Seagull Sartre Library now presents some of his most incisive philosophical, cultural, and literary critical essays in twelve newly designed and affordable volumes.