Catherine Camus

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

— Catherine Camus

[Albert Camus] was not an existentialist!

— 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

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

— Catherine Camus

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

— Catherine Camus

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

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

— Catherine Camus

There is an interview given by [ Jean-Paul] Sartre in the USA where he is asked what the future of French literature…

— 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

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 always insisted that historical criteria and historical reasoning were not the only things to take into account, and that they…

— 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

One thing that is evident is that [Albert] Camus could never be a 'neutral' man. This is because he was committed; look…

— Catherine Camus

Recognition, gratefulness exist.[ Speech for the Nobel Prize] is to show that this is what has come from what [Albert Camus] teacher…

— 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

During the '80s, those you would call the young philosophers of France, such as Bernard-Henri Lévy and [André ] Gluxman, pointed out…

— 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

[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] 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

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

— 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

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

— Catherine Camus

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

— 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

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

— Catherine Camus

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

— Catherine Camus

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

— 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

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

— Catherine Camus

In publishing The First Man I said to myself, 'this is going to be awful,' but awful from the point of view…

— Catherine Camus

The First Man is completely autobiographical. The mother [Albert Camus] describes is the woman I knew, and she was exactly as he…

— 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] was viewed by many as an austere moralist, but it was on the football pitch and in the theatre that…

— 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