

However, Camus was bolstered by the support of the French intellectual and publishing elite, who were intrigued by the emergence of a new talent from a poor neighborhood in Algiers. The road to publication was made difficult by WWII, which created impediments such as a shortage of quality paper and German-imposed censorship. She also charts the feedback he received from mentors and from literary lions such as André Malraux. Cain’s The Postman Always Rings Twice), themes, and distinctive writing style.

She explores Camus’s inspirations and influences (including James M. Kaplan ( Dreaming in French), a professor of French at Yale, persuasively retells the story of writer Albert Camus and his classic first novel, The Stranger.
