Catherine Camus

[Albert Camus] was not an existentialist!

— Catherine Camus

I think [Albert] Camus felt very solitary. You can see it in all his books.

— Catherine Camus

The Nobel Prize comes from outside, it's a social recognition [reconnaissance] in a way. And I think a true artist is driven…

— Catherine Camus

We must remember that [Albert] Camus wrote not even a third of what he had wished to.

— Catherine Camus

The Outsider isn't [Albert] Camus, but in The Outsider there are parts of Camus. There's this impression of exile.

— Catherine Camus

Where [Albert Camus] is in exile isn't especially in Paris or elsewhere, but from the intellectual world, because of his origins.

— Catherine Camus

Just after the war, the liberation of 1945, [Albert] Camus was well known, well loved by [Jean-Paul ] Sartre and all the…

— Catherine Camus

French intellectuals are mostly petit bourgeois, and it's hard to say whether that makes [Albert] Camus' work more valuable.

— Catherine Camus

It's true that women appear very little in [Albert Camus] works. They have a very marginal place.

— Catherine Camus

I think [Albert Camus] wanted to write something to explain who he was, and how he was different from the age that…

— Catherine Camus

You end up beating your head against a wall again, it doesn't work. Not if you make an abstraction of man. That's…

— Catherine Camus

[French intellectuals] could never address themselves to the working classes. They don't know what it means, and that gives them a bad…

— Catherine Camus

[Albert Camus] started thinking through sensation. He could never think with artefacts or with cultural models because there were none. So it's…

— Catherine Camus

There are those who will find [Albert Camus] notions about absurdity appealing, and others who will be drawn by the solar side…

— Catherine Camus

The First Man is [Albert Camus] posthumous last work. But in fact, in a certain way, it is his first, because in…

— Catherine Camus

There's no one who can say 'this person is wrong there and right here', and that 'one is right about that and…

— Catherine Camus

Everyone has so much hope for a better humanity, and many, including [Jean Paul] Sartre, turned to the idea of communism in…

— Catherine Camus

I think for [Albert] Camus his mother was more than just that. She's love, absolute love. That's why it's written for her,…

— Catherine Camus

Love is very important in The First Man, in that [Albert] Camus loves these things he never chose, he loves his childhood…

— Catherine Camus

What the articles which have been written about The First Man propose is humility. The acceptance of these contradictions. Seeking an explanation…

— Catherine Camus

Femininity, yes, effectively there is more in The First Man, not only in terms of women but stylistically, in its elements, the…

— Catherine Camus

[Albert Camus] also says that nothing is true which forces exclusion. From that, you're obliged to accept contradictions if you don't want…

— Catherine Camus

[Albert Camus] positions are sensed. So, naturally, those intellectuals who don't have that experience have difficulty in comprehending it. But I think…

— Catherine Camus

When [Jean-Paul] Sartre was asked whether or not he would live under a communist regime he said, "No, for others it's fine,…

— Catherine Camus

[Albert Camus]didn't have much hope that things would work out, but he wanted them to. Algeria had reached such a degree of…

— Catherine Camus

[Albert]Camus had denounced the gulag and Stalin's trials. Today we can see that he was right. To say that there were concentration…

— Catherine Camus

[Albert Camus] always held a profound commitment [engagement], a real resistance to all totalitarianism.

— Catherine Camus

I think for an artist what is most important is to touch as many hearts as possible.

— Catherine Camus

[Albert] Camus points out that we have a lot of things to pass through. Everything has to be accepted before it can…

— Catherine Camus

There are indications that today the intellectuals are coming back to [Albert] Camus. History has given them reason to, with the fall…

— Catherine Camus

[Albert] Camus writes his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in thanks to his teacher.

— Catherine Camus

[Albert Camus] is The First Man because he is poor, which has never been much to human beings.

— Catherine Camus

[Albert Camus] wasn't writing under the influence of the Nobel Prize. That was an external thing for the artist in him.

— Catherine Camus

[Albert Camus] was completely intransigent, and that's not at all a neutrality. It's combat, it's a man who involved himself, committed himself.

— Catherine Camus

We can't talk about the book [Albert Camus] wanted to write because we have barely its beginnings. He had written hardly any…

— Catherine Camus

Albert Camus was never abandoned by his readers. Camus is enormously read. He's the highest selling author in the entire Gallimard collection,…

— Catherine Camus

I couldn't ever act or think on behalf of what my father [[Albert Camus]] would have said or done. He's an artist,…

— Catherine Camus

For example, it's often forgotten that [Albert ] Camus was extremely hostile [farouche] towards the [Francisco] Franco regime, and right to the…

— Catherine Camus

Today this is what we are confronted with, I mean what is pure ideology, which takes no account of the human context.…

— Catherine Camus

Of course, [Albert Camus] wasn't an existentialist, but he was a committed man. He was a man of combat. It wasn't for…

— Catherine Camus