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Article: BOOK BY CAMUS NOT GREAT, BUT VERY GOOD.(LIFE & LEISURE)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- September 17, 1995
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Byline: GEORGE GURLEY
A new book by Albert Camus is like a communication from beyond the grave by one of the great writers of our time.
Camus, who died in a 1960 car accident, wrote the classics ``The Stranger'' and ``The Plague'' and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. The manuscript for ``The First Man'' was discovered in the wreckage of the car 144 handwritten pages, often lacking punctuation.
In an editor's note, Camus' daughter Catherine explains the long delay in publication. At the time of Camus' death, French intellectuals and prevailing opinion on the left ``forbade criticism of the Communist regime on the grounds that any ...