Personal Writings

By: Albert Camus

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

The Nobel Prize winner's most influential and enduring personal writings, newly curated and introduced by acclaimed Camus scholar Alice Kaplan.

Albert Camus (1913-1960) is unsurpassed among writers for a body of work that animates the wonder and absurdity of existence. Personal Writings brings together, for the first time, thematically-linked essays from across Camus's writing career that reflect the scope and depth of his interior life. Grappling with an indifferent mother and an impoverished childhood in Algeria, an ever-present sense of exile, and an ongoing search for equilibrium, Camus's personal essays shed new light on the emotional and experiential foundations of his philosophical thought and humanize his most celebrated works.

©2020 Alice Kaplan (introduction) (P)2020 Recorded Books

Don’t worry you won’t have any issues.

Facts and facts about this guy. It echoes of the average response to catastrophe and cat behavior.

Often gorgeous writing, lyrical and philosophical

I really enjoyed these mostly early essays. They are often beautifully written, illustrating his early skill as a writer. I did find, however, that, in some of the essays about Algeria and Algerians, he was uncharacteristically harsh, dismissive, and mean. He is disrespectful and uses stereotypes.

Not philosophy, but art

Excellent collection of his work! Beautiful writing style that captures so much of the human condition. Not Hallmark type sugar but the meat of man’s experience. Sometimes the meat is even foul but delicious none the less. A must for anyone wanting to understand and appreciate the style and work of Camus.