Albert Camus

Clear eyed, compendious, with full access to the Camus archive, [Albert Camus] fulfilled every expectation… Todd’s biography is both remarkably thorough and candid, and will prove indispensable to all those interested in Camus’ life… completely fascinating – William Boyd * Daily Telegraph *
The biography of the season… Mesmerising * Observer *
Todd, in this first authorised, definitive life - and one which is unlikely to be surpassed - reveals Camus to be far more fun that one would expect the author of L’Etranger to be * Time Out *
Todd has spared no pains in his search for significant details… it is difficult to imagine that there can ever be a more exhaustive study of Camus’ personality and of the relationship between his work and his life * New York Review of Books *
With admirable detachment, Olivier Todd has told us how and why Camus wrote and lived so magnificently – Tom Rosenthal * Daily Mail *
With the publication of his massive biography, Albert Camus: A Life, Todd does some serious unveiling of the Algiers slum kid who, at 43, became the second youngest Nobel Prize winner in history – Peter Lennon * Guardian *
Albert Camus offers a lively, richly detailed portrait of this talented, meditative, self-critical, depressive, playful, ribald, vulnerable and unstable man – Eugene Weber * Wall Street Journal *

Olivier Todd was educated at the Sorbonne and Cambridge, and is a journalist and award-winning writer. He is the author of several acclaimed books and biographies. He lives in Paris.

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