The First Man is completely autobiographical. The mother…

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

— Catherine Camus

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

— Catherine Camus

[Albert Camus] really did know Algeria. He was an exile from his country, but still living in its language. Solitaire et solidaire. It's not…

— 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

So time passes, and a much more political rather than literary reasoning intervenes, and from the day that [Albert] Camus wrote The Rebel, in…

— Catherine Camus

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

— Catherine Camus

[Albert] Camus' was born in Algeria of French nationality, and was assimilated into the French colony, although the French colonists rejected him absolutely because…

— Catherine Camus

[Albert Camus] was not an existentialist!

— 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, and has…

— Catherine Camus

Politically, [Albert Camus] was in favour of a federation, and effectively he considered that like South Africa today (or as they are trying to…

— Catherine Camus

Intellectuals of [Albert] Camus' age who had previously disliked him now appreciate him. And at that point we come back to literature, and it's…

— 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 of it,…

— Catherine Camus

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

— 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 it made…

— 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 true to…

— Catherine Camus