All translations are my own
Chapter 1: Camus, son of France in Algeria
Ch.-Robert Ageron, Histoire de l’Algérie contemporaine (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1994) 62–3
Baudelaire, Œuvres complètes I (Paris: Gallimard, 1992)
Albert Camus, Œuvres complètes I (Paris: Gallimard, 2006) 44
Albert Camus, Jean Grenier, Correspondance 1932–1960 (Paris: Gallimard, 1981)
Alexis de Tocqueville, ‘Travail sur L’Algérie’, 1841. Œuvres I (Paris: Gallimard, 1991) 704, 706
Charles-André Julien, Histoire de l’Algérie contemporaine, tome I (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1979)
Herbert Lottman, Albert Camus a Biography (New York: Doubleday, 1979)
Lacheraf Mostefa, L’Algérie: Nation et société (Alger: Ed. Casbah, 2004)
Olivier Todd, Albert Camus, une vie (Paris: Gallimard, 1996)
Chapter 2: Camus, from reporter to editorialist
Boussetta Allouche, Albert Camus n’a pas compris les Kabyles (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2017)
Albert Camus, Œuvres complètes I (Paris: Gallimard, 2006) 575, 585, 646, 656
Albert Camus, Œuvres complètes II (Paris: Gallimard, 2006) 9–25, 618
Albert Camus, Œuvres complètes IV (Paris: Gallimard, 2008) 351
Alice Kaplan, Looking for The Stranger (Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 2016)
Chapter 3: Camus and the absurd
Albert Camus, Œuvres complètes I (Paris: Gallimard, 2006) 106, 228–9, 233, 257–59, 283
Albert Camus, Œuvres complètes III (Paris: Gallimard, 2008) 824, 1010
Albert Camus, Francis Ponge, Correspondance 1941–1957 (Paris: Gallimard, 2013)
Alice Kaplan, Looking for The Stranger (Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 2016)
Conor Cruise O’Brien, Camus (London: Faber, 2015)
Edward Said, ‘Camus and the French Imperial Experience’ in Culture and Imperialism (New York: Vintage, 1993)
Jean-Paul Sartre, Œuvres romanesques (Paris: Gallimard, 1981)
Chapter 4: Rebel without a cause
Ian Birchall, ‘The Labourism of Sisyphus’, Journal of European Studies, Vol. 20, No. 2 (1990), 135–65
Albert Camus, Œuvres complètes II (Paris: Gallimard, 2006) 437, 453, 1010
Albert Camus, Œuvres complètes III (Paris: Gallimard, 2008) 660, 1008, 1177, 1243
Chapter 5: Camus and Sartre—the breaks that made them inseparable
Ronald Aronson, Camus & Sartre (Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 2004)
Simone de Beauvoir, La Force des choses I (Paris, Gallimard, 1972) 151, 158, 264, 354
Albert Camus, Œuvres complètes I (Paris: Gallimard, 2006)
Albert Camus, Œuvres complètes III (Paris: Gallimard, 2008) 412–30
Jean Grenier, Albert Camus, souvenirs (Paris: Gallimard, 1968)
Agnes Poirier, Left Bank (New York: Holt, 2018)
Jean-Paul Sartre, Situations I (Paris: Gallimard, 2010) 126–46
Jean-Paul Sartre, Situations IV (Paris: Gallimard, 2010) 90–129
Jean-Paul Sartre, Situations VIII (Paris: Gallimard, 2010) 375–412
Chapter 6: Camus and Algeria
Ch.-Robert Ageron, Histoire de l’Algérie contemporaine (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1994)
Albert Camus, Œuvres complètes II (Paris: Gallimard, 2008) 1010
Albert Camus, Œuvres complètes IV (Paris: Gallimard, 2008) 751–915
Charles-André Julien, Histoire de l’Algérie contemporaine, tome I (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1979)
Charles Poncet, Camus et l’impossible trêve civile (Paris: Gallimard, 2015)
Chapter 7: Camus’s legacies
Albert Camus, Écrits libertaires (1948–1960) (Paris: Indigènes Éditions, 2013)
Vine Deloria Jr, God is Red (New York: Putnam, 1973)
Yoav Di-Capua, No Exit (Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 2018)
Henri Guaino, Camus au Panthéon (Paris: Plon, 2013)
Norman Podhoretz, ‘Camus and his Critics’, New Criterion (November 1982)
Marine Le Pen, ‘To Call this Threat by its Name’, New York Times (18 January 2015)
Kamel Daoud, Meursault, contre-enquête (Paris: Actes Sud, 2014)
Yazgi (Fate), Filmed and directed by Zeki Demirkubuz. Performances by Serdar Orçin, Zeynep Tokus, Engin Günaydin. Produced by Turkishfilmchannel, 2001.
A testimony to his ongoing popularity, there is a multitude of books on Camus; I have been deliberately selective.
Biographies
There are two major biographies of Camus. The first is Herbert Lottman’s thorough volume, which was viewed as slightly irreverent when it came out in 1979: it was only translated into French in 1985 (Albert Camus: A Biography (Corte Madera: Gingko Press, 1997)). There is also Olivier Todd’s enormous free-flowing portrait, which ideally should be read in French; the English version has been edited and is much shorter than the original (in French: Albert Camus, une vie (Paris: Gallimard, 1997); in English: Albert Camus, A Life (New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000)). Other portraits include Edward J. Hughes’s Albert Camus (London: Reaktion Books, 2015) and Robert Zaretsky’s Albert Camus: Elements of a Life (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010), both laudatory. For a more critical perspective, see Patrick McCarthy’s Camus: A Critical Study of his Life and Works (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1982).
Studies on particular aspects of Camus’s work or life
Ronald Aronson, Camus & Sartre: The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel that Ended it (Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 2004). The best book-length study on the famous break.
Alice Kaplan, Looking for The Stranger (Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 2016). The biography of Camus’s best-known novel, from the real life crime that may have inspired it to Kamel Daoud’s novel. Superbly written and researched.
Agnès Poirier, Left Bank (New York: Holt, 2018). A fine introduction to what literary life was like in Paris between 1940 and 1950, through the portrait of many artists, including Camus. An original overview of his complicated relationship with Simone de Beauvoir.
Conor Cruise O’Brien, Camus (London: Faber & Faber, 2015). Originally published in 1970, Conor Cruise O’Brien’s hard-hitting, irreverent interpretation of Camus’s major works is still significant.
Edward Said, ‘Camus and the French Imperial Experience’ in Culture and Imperialism (New York: Knopf, 1993). The original critical post-colonial perspective.