Albert Camus (1913-1960), French novelist, essayist and playwright,
is one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century. His
most famous works include The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), The Plague
(1947), The Just (1949), The Rebel (1951) and The Fall (1956). He
was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, and his last
novel, The First Man, unfinished at the time of his death, appeared
in print for the first time in 1994, and was published in English
soon after by Hamish Hamilton.
Sandra Smith was born and raised in New York City and is a Fellow
of Robinson College, University of Cambridge, where she teaches
French Literature and Language. She has won the French American
Foundation Florence Gould Foundation Translation Prize, as well as
the PEN Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize.
Smith's new version ... treats Camus' text with respect, directness
and an unexpected delicateness. She reveals, and permits, an
original edgy strangeness in the prose itself; she treats it
sensually, listening to Camus' original sentence structures and
lengths, and to the rhythmic fall of his prose
*The Times*
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