Penguin Modern Classics: Exile and The Kingdom

French novelist, essayist, and playwright. Albert Camus (1913-1960) was a representative of non-metropolitan French literature. His origin in Algeria and his experiences there in the thirties were dominating influences in his thought and work.

Carol Cosman is the translator of many works from French, both literary and scholarly. Among the books she has translated are Jean-Paul Sartre’s “The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857,” Honore de Balzac’s “Colonel Chabert,” Simone de Beauvoir’s “America Day by Day,” and most recently Rene Daumal’s “Mount Analogue”.