vintageanchorbooks:Albert Camus was born in Dréan (then known as Mondovi) in French Algeria to a Pie
vintageanchorbooks:Albert Camus was born in Dréan (then known as Mondovi) in French Algeria to a Pied-Noir family, on this day in 1913.“We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love — first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.” —from “A Happy Death” (written 1938), first published as La mort heureuse (1971), as translated by Richard Howard (1972)Born in Algeria in 1913, Albert Camus published The Stranger— now one of the most widely read novels of this century— in 1942. Celebrated in intellectual circles, Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. On January 4, 1960, he was killed in a car accident. -- source link