Camus & Sartre: The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel that Ended it (Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 2004). The best book-length study on the famous break.

Alice Kaplan,

Looking for The Stranger (Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 2016). The biography of Camus’s best-known novel, from the real life crime that may have inspired it to Kamel Daoud’s novel. Superbly written and researched.

Agnès Poirier,

Left Bank (New York: Holt, 2018). A fine introduction to what literary life was like in Paris between 1940 and 1950, through the portrait of many artists, including Camus. An original overview of his complicated relationship with Simone de Beauvoir.

Conor Cruise O’Brien,

Camus (London: Faber & Faber, 2015). Originally published in 1970, Conor Cruise O’Brien’s hard-hitting, irreverent interpretation of Camus’s major works is still significant.

Edward Said, 'Camus and the French Imperial Experience’ in

Culture and Imperialism (New York: Knopf, 1993). The original critical post-colonial perspective.

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