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 Copy Share Image
Femininity, yes, effectively there is more in The First Man, not only in terms of women but stylistically, in its elements, the… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
[Albert Camus] is The First Man because he is poor, which has never been much to human beings. — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
[Albert] Camus always insisted that historical criteria and historical reasoning were not the only things to take into account, and that they… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
Today this is what we are confronted with, I mean what is pure ideology, which takes no account of the human context.… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
The First Man is [Albert Camus] posthumous last work. But in fact, in a certain way, it is his first, because in… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
In publishing The First Man I said to myself, 'this is going to be awful,' but awful from the point of view… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
One thing that is evident is that [Albert] Camus could never be a 'neutral' man. This is because he was committed; look… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
Love is very important in The First Man, in that [Albert] Camus loves these things he never chose, he loves his childhood… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The First Man is completely autobiographical. The mother [Albert Camus] describes is the woman I knew, and she was exactly as he… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
What the articles which have been written about The First Man propose is humility. The acceptance of these contradictions. Seeking an explanation… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
[Albert Camus] always held a profound commitment [engagement], a real resistance to all totalitarianism. — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There's no one who can say 'this person is wrong there and right here', and that 'one is right about that and wrong about… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
[Albert]Camus had denounced the gulag and Stalin's trials. Today we can see that he was right. To say that there were concentration camps in… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The Outsider isn't [Albert] Camus, but in The Outsider there are parts of Camus. There's this impression of exile. — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image