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...soon joined by a choir of enthusiasts. As Lottman notes, "Fame traveled by train in those times." It took some months for the author's reputation to reach beyond the precincts of Paris. By then, the Nazi-occupied city had other matters to contend with. Camus joined the Free French, writing for the underground newspaper Combat...
...liberation of Paris in 1944 marked the freeing of talent and energy. Camus was awarded for wartime courage, oversaw the production of his flawed drama Caligula and began intensive work on The Plague, an allegory of moral infection and individual salvation. By the age of 35 he was a candidate for the Nobel; when he was 40 Camus found that his work, along with George Orwell's and Arthur Koestler's, was one of the rallying points for Europe's non-Communist left. His loathing for totalitarianism brought him into sharp conflict with Sartre, then in lockstep...
...block, and complained of sterility and decay. Even the Nobel, awarded in 1957, was perceived as both an honor and an invasion of privacy. "I'm castrated!" he complained to a friend. The cry, like many of his statements, was pure theater. Yet as Lottman shows, Camus produced no more major work. He retreated to the sanctity of his home, to Francine and their twins, and was at work on a new novel, The First Man, when he was suddenly killed. He was eulogized every where; even Sartre wrote a lyric tribute...
...reputation swiftly diminished, and Camus's tone of stoicism and forbearance was swallowed in the crowd noises of the '60s. Only now has the canon been appraised as a coherent statement about the possibilities of secular salvation. One sentence in The Fall, Camus's last published novel, sums up a life and a work: "Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every...
...strenuous effort to help readers make their own last judgment about Camus, Lottman seems to have talked to everyone who ever shared an espresso or a bed with the author. But the book offers an utter catholicity of research and taste...