It shows Camus as a novelist of objective description, an observer of the elements, of color and noise, attributes seldom mentioned in the recitation of his gifts, in which moral meaning tends to take the upper hand.

WSJ: Book Review: Algerian Chronicles

Camus presents Meursault as a hero, the judicial process as a villain.

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In a foreign country such as France, Catherine Camus would have been a stranger, one more Camusian character struggling to understand the whirl of absurdity between birth and death.

WSJ: Book Review: Algerian Chronicles

Even as terror struck Algiers, Camus was vainly urging a federal solution, with a place for French settlers.

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Her brother, Jean, was quoted in Le Monde as saying it would contradict what Camus stood for.

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It was to be Camus's final book and appears in retrospect as a summing-up of his feelings about his birthplace.

WSJ: Book Review: Algerian Chronicles

More commonly, it is read as a story of man's alienation from the socially adhesive forces of family and legal authority (and subsequently from his own motivation and desire), or as a seminal existentialist treatise (to Camus's exasperation).

WSJ: Book Review: Algerian Chronicles

Albert Camus was an Algerian French writer linked with a philosophy known as absurdism.

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While recognizing that "the era of colonialism is over, " Camus could not accept that it must lead to the extinction of the community that had nourished him as a child and given a subject to the young writer.

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