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

[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

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

— 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

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

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

— 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

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

— 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

[Albert Camus] was not an existentialist!

— 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

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

— 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

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

— Catherine Camus

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

— 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

[Albert Camus] really did know Algeria. He was an exile from his country, but still living in its language. Solitaire et solidaire.…

— Catherine Camus

In fact it was always the Communist problem which was responsible for the opposition to [Albert] Camus. It was always and overall…

— 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

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

— 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

Just because of [Albert Camus] way of sensing before thinking. He's in a field that he often feels like escaping from. In…

— 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

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

— 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