Mon cher amour : the love letters of Albert Camus and Maria Casar̈s, 1944-1959 / translated from the French by Sandra Smith and Cory Stockwell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Camus, Albert, 1913-1960, author.

Casarès, Maria, author.

Contributor:

Smith, Sandra, 1949- translator.

Stockwell, Cory, translator.

Camus, Catherine, writer of preface.

Standardized Title:

Correspondance, 1944-1959. English http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/c7bd0d11-a3d0-8110-2329-ba4817cb4a04

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Authors, French--20th century--Correspondence.

Authors, French.

Actors--France--Correspondence.

Actors.

Camus, Albert, 1913-1960--Correspondence.

Camus, Albert.

Casarès, Maria--Correspondence.

Casarès, Maria.

Genre:

personal correspondence.

love letters.

Personal correspondence.

Love letters.

Physical Description:

xv, 1175 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First U.S. hardcover edition.

Other Title:

Love letters of Albert Camus and Maria Casar̈s, 1944-1959

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2026.

Summary:

"The impassioned correspondence between the Nobel Prize-winning author and the renowned Spanish-French actress who appeared in his plays, tracing the extreme highs and lows of their all-consuming love affair--a bestseller in France translated for the first time into English. Albert. Albert chéri. Write me sweet, passionate things. Tell me you love me and how you love me. Tell me you'll take me to the sea one day--any sea at all--and that we'll spend time on the shore and in the water. Tell me you'll always be with me. Tell me about you, and today, especially, talk to me about us. -Maria Casarès to Albert Camus, Feb 1, 1950. It's said that the affair began on June 6, 1944, the day the Allied forces landed in Normandy. The twenty-one-year-old Casarès was starring in a production of the thirty-year-old Camus's play The Misunderstanding--and one thing (an afterparty hosted by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir) led to another. Though their fling would be cut short by the end of the Occupation--and the return to Paris of Camus's wife, Francine--the two were destined to meet again: four years later, to the day, they crossed paths by chance on boulevard Saint-Germain. Over the next twelve years, without interruption--until the car wreck of January 4, 1960 that stole Camus's life--the author and actress would correspond furiously, their words swelling and shimmering and surging like the ocean. Ah! It's so hard to leave you, your dear face will again fade into the night, but I'll find you once more in this ocean you love, at the time of evening when the sky takes on the color of your eyes." -Albert Camus to Maria Casarès, June 1, 1949. Across 865 letters of immense and exquisite emotion, they cry and laugh and bicker and beg, make and break promises, talk Stendhal and Proust and Orwell, French theater, sickness, death, writer's block, and, most of all, they pine--leaving behind a record of one of the great love stories of the twentieth century." -- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

"A Borzoi book"

"Originally published in hardcover in France by Editions Gallimard in 2017" --Title page verso.

Preface by Catherine Camus.

Translated from the original French.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contains:

Container of: Camus, Albert, 1913-1960. Correspondence. Selections (Casarès). English.

Container of: Casarès, Maria. Correspondence. Selections (Camus). English.

Other Format:

Online version Mon cher amour

ISBN:

9780525656616

0525656618

9780525567059

0525567054

OCLC:

1528902147

Publisher Number:

90104472711