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Apr.05.2010
There's a big 3-day international Camus conference -- CAMUS NOW -- coming up later this week, Thursday through Saturday, April 8-10th at NYU's Maison Française on Washington Mews (at University Place) with keynote by Jean Daniel, an old friend of Camus's, fellow Algerian, and editor of Le Nouvel...
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Jan.04.2010
It has been astonishing, distressing, amusing and gratifying to follow the commotion in France over Nicolas Sarkozy’s proposal to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the death of Albert Camus, who was killed in a car crash at 46, with reburial in the Pantheon. Astonishing to find Camus being so...
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Nov.22.2009
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Albert Camus’s death in January, Nicolas Sarkozy wants to honor him with a resting place in the Pantheon where great writers like Voltaire and Rousseau and Victor Hugo already lie. Those buried in the Pantheon are called the “immortals.” This is a great...
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Nov.13.2009
In the production of Albert Camus’s play The Misunderstanding that is now playing in downtown New York, the audience sits so close to the stage that it could be peering in the window of the grim little country inn in Bohemia in which the action takes place. A lineup of white teacups on a rafter...
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Oct.05.2009
First a new movie, now a revived play. Beginning October 29th, the Flea Theatre in Tribeca, an important Off-Off Broadway stage, is hosting a production of Camus's 1944 play The Misunderstanding, about a chilling case of mistaken identity. It has been decades since I last saw it, so I will go.
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Oct.02.2009
Last night I stumbled upon the news in a cinema blog that the Italian director Gianni Amelio is making a movie of Albert Camus's last and unfinished novel The First Man, shooting it in North Africa where Camus grew up. I have found a video clip of the lead, French actor Jacques Gamblin, who...
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Sep.22.2009
My book, Camus, A Romance, came out this summer and after eight years of working on it and effectively living with Albert Camus, I find myself missing roaming around in his life and missing being in France of the 1940's and 1950's. As a post-script, I have decided that I want to go to Algeria,...
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About elizabeth
Elizabeth Hawes is the author of Camus, A Romance and New York, New York, How the Apartment House Transformed the Life of the City, 1869-1930. A former staff member and contributor to The New Yorker, she has also written forThe New York Times Magazine and ...
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Women's Refugee Commission, Nature Conservancy