A bien des egards,
Camus se refuse obstinement a etre un imbecile, car il fete ouvertement ses noces avec la nature, dans la felicite, la grandeur et la gloire.
Son livre dit-elle, [beaucoup moins que] est tisse de balades, de fouilles les journaux dans les carnets de
Camus et ses manuscrits.
Camus' migrant ancestors arrived in Algeria in the 1840s and 1870s, while Jacques Cormery's grandmother, settled in the Sahel, is of Mahon origin and married "a slender and delicate man, of Mahon and Alsatian origin, whose brothers were already settled in Algeria by 1848" (The First Man 65).
Almost 60 years on, Catherine
Camus welcomes me into her father's former home, an old silk farm in the Provencal village of Lourmarin, and tells me that the impact of that horrific event registered "like an earthquake".
(1) This is the
Camus for which Patrick Hayden ultimately fails to account, to the book's ultimate detriment.
Camus said even he received a call from one of the scammers at his home on a Saturday.