Albert Camus: A Life.(Review)

Monthly Review | December 1, 1998| | Copyright

Olivier Todd, (New York: Knopf, 1997) 434 pp., $30, cloth.

It's a mantra: Why can't we be debonair, like the French, about the private pleasures of public figures? As we were fussing over what Orrin Hatch described with pinched mouth as our very first case of "Presidential kanoodling," the French amusedly told us about President Mitterrand. Lucky Francois. Mais, attention. Mitterrand cheated not only on his wife and mistresses (including a mother and daughter, so it is said) but also on Marianne - la Republique. He collaborated with Vichy, defended war criminals and ...

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