Albert Camus, 20: 'Le Premier Homme' en perspective.(Book Review)

The Modern Language Review | July 1, 2005| | Copyright

Albert Camus, 20: 'Le Premier Homme' en perspective. Ed. by RAYMOND GAY-CROSIER. Paris-Caen: Lettres Modernes Minard. 2004. 208pp. 19 [euro]. ISBN 2-256-91070-0.

The international contributions collected here bear witness to the ongoing interest in Camus's unfinished recit d'enfance, Le Premier Homme, a decade after its original publication in France. Yosei Matsumoto examines the genesis of the work by drawing on the author's Carnets, where notes for the project are abundant. While 1953 is seen to be a 'tournant decisif' (p. 18) in terms of the crystallization of ...

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