The Castaway
Jeremy Harding: Algeria’s Camus, 4 December 2014
Algerian Chronicles
by Albert Camus, edited by Alice Kaplan, translated by Arthur Goldhammer.
Harvard, 224 pp., £11.95, November 2014,978 0 674 41675 8 Show More
by Albert Camus, edited by Alice Kaplan, translated by Arthur Goldhammer.
Harvard, 224 pp., £11.95, November 2014,
Camus brûlant
by Benjamin Stora and Jean-Baptiste Péretié.
Stock, 109 pp., €12.50, September 2013,978 2 234 07482 8 Show More
by Benjamin Stora and Jean-Baptiste Péretié.
Stock, 109 pp., €12.50, September 2013,
Meursault, contre-enquête
by Kamel Daoud.
Actes Sud, 155 pp., €19, May 2014,978 2 330 03372 9 Show More
by Kamel Daoud.
Actes Sud, 155 pp., €19, May 2014,
“... December 1938 in a large provincial city. It’s the last chance for the council to agree the municipal budget; in the chamber a reporter from the local paper tries to wring a bit of fun from a drab occasion. As a dignitary ploughs through a lengthy preamble, restless councillors begin to doodle (one makes a paper windmill from the minutes of an earlier meeting ... ”
