Letters
Penguin Classics (Verlag)
978-0-241-40042-5 (ISBN)
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The affair between Albert Camus and Maria Casarès began in wartime, on 6 June 1944. Casarès was starring in a production of Camus’ play The Misunderstanding, and at an after-party hosted by Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, the actress and Nobel Prize-winning author embarked on a love affair that would unfold in hundreds of vivid and moving letters over 15 years.
Translated into English for the first time, these 865 letters reveal the impassioned heights and depths of Casarès and Camus’ relationship. They wax lyrical, they rage, they traverse Parisian streets and gaze upon the Luberon mountains, they discuss stardom and everyday life. Letters: 1944-1959 draws back the curtain on the intimate personal lives of two extraordinary artists, who wrote persistently and copiously to one another until Camus’ fatal car crash in January 1960.
Albert Camus (1913-60) grew up in a working-class neighbourhood in Algiers. He studied philosophy at the University of Algiers, and became a journalist. His most important works include The Outsider, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Plague and The Fall. After the occupation of France by the Germans in 1941, Camus became one of the intellectual leaders of the Resistance movement. He was killed in a road accident, and his last unfinished novel, The First Man, appeared posthumously. Maria Casarès (1922–1996) was a Spanish-born French actress celebrated for her commanding presence on stage and screen. In 1942, she played the lead role on stage in Deirdre of the Sorrows by J. M. Synge and soon after launched her film career in Marcel Carné’s cinematic masterpiece Les Enfants du paradis. She went on to star in Robert Bresson’s Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne and gave perhaps her most memorable performance, as Death, in Jean Cocteau’s Orphée (1950).
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 6.8.2026 |
|---|---|
| Übersetzer | Sandra Smith, Cory Stockwell |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 240 mm |
| Gewicht | 750 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher |
| ISBN-10 | 0-241-40042-2 / 0241400422 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-241-40042-5 / 9780241400425 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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