The Complete Notebooks

“An intimate glimpse into the psyche of a widely admired writer.” – Praise for Ryan Bloom’s translation of Camus’s “Travels in the Americas” * The Wall Street Journal *“An elegant new translation.” – Praise for Ryan Bloom’s translation of Camus’s “Travels in the Americas” * London Review of Books *

Albert Camus (1913–60) was a French philosopher, writer, and journalist and one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century letters. His widely read and translated works include the novels The Stranger, The Plague, and The Fall and the philosophical texts The Myth of Sisyphus and The Rebel.

Ryan Bloom is a literary translator, fiction writer, and essayist from Washington, DC. His translations of Camus’s work include Caligula and Three Other Plays; Travels in the Americas; The First Man: The Graphic Novel; and Notebooks 1951–1959. He is a 2024–2025 Guggenheim Fellow and a Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Wesleyan University.