Personal Writings

''It was the discovery of the essays celebrating his childhood and youth that altered my perception of Camus, from a thinker to a writer whose intellectual lucidity was a product of the wealth - the sensual immediacy and clarity - that had been heaped on his senses'' Geoff Dyer

Albert Camus was born in a ''world of poverty and sunshine'' in Algeria, which would infuse all of his work. This new col...