![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Perhaps with the lockdown we will have some time to reflect about what is real, what is important, and become more human,” she said. In his book The Death of Camus, the Italian author and academic Giovanni Catelli suggests the author may have been killed by the KGB after expressing his opposition to the Soviet regime.Ĭatherine and her twin brother, Jean, whom their father fondly nicknamed “Plague” and “Cholera”, were not directly told of his death and were kept away from the funeral.įor 40 years, Catherine Camus has managed her father’s literary legacy, controlling publication rights, publishing his letters and keeping the flame of her adored “Papa” alight while remaining in the shadows herself because, she said, “I prefer it there”. ![]() The cause of the accident, on a long stretch of straight, wide road, remains a mystery and there have been numerous theories. The car, a powerful Facel-Vega, veered off the road and hit two trees. Albert Camus, who was born in Algeria, where La Peste is set, and died in 1960, aged 46, while being driven to his Provençal home by his publisher, Michel Gallimard. ![]()
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