Sixty years after the French Nobel laureate Albert Camus died in a car crash at the age of 46, a new book argues that he was assassinated by KGB spies in retaliation for his anti-Soviet rhetoric.

In March 1946, Albert Camus, then 32, departed Le Havre, France, on a ship bound for the United States. Arriving in New York two weeks later, he was appalled but sanguine about what he saw: “At first ...

EXILE AND THE KINGDOM (213 pp.) —Albert Camus—Knopf ($3.50). Nobel Prizewinner Albert Camus is a writer without small talk. His themes—life, love, death, man, God, time—are large and universal. He ...

Since his death in a car accident on January 4, 1960, Albert Camus has led a kind of double-afterlife. In the West, he is not only remembered as one of the great writers of the post-war era, but as a ...

“The Stranger,” Albert Camus’ classic novel, which is about to celebrate its 75th anniversary in print, almost wasn’t published. Alice Kaplan, the John M. Musser Professor of French, recounts this ...

Can a person really be faultless? According to Albert Camus, the answer is no, but that is okay. The Fall is perhaps Camus' most enigmatic novel. It tells the story of Jean-Baptiste Clamence, a judge ...

Study expands on archive finds revealed in 2011, and suggests that the French state may have abetted the 1960 car crash that killed him Sixty years after the French Nobel laureate Albert Camus died in ...