CAMUS ALBERT: (1913-1960) French Author and Philosopher. Nobel Prize winner in Literature, 1957. An excellent and ...

CAMUS ALBERT: (1913-1960) French Author and Philosopher. Nobel Prize winner in Literature, 1957. An excellent and rare set containing one A.L.S. and eight T.Ls. containing annotations in Camus´ hand. A.L.S., `Albert Camus´, one page, 4to, n.p., 7th April 1952, in French. Camus responds to his correspondent´s questions, and numbers five very interesting and literary answers plus a conclusion, stating in part `1) You can use the Mayo´s illustration without inconvenience - 2) The photograph with Barrault is indeed a rehearsal one of L´Etat de Siege. Honegger composed the music for it… 5) ''L´Inédit est récent (1951). It is a commentary about a Vaucluse photographic report which I will present , not yet published with René Char. The provisional title is ''The Sun Posterity''.´ Camus further concludes `However you are fully right: it is ''the deepest'' we can say and there I was negligent with the style..´ An excellent content letter with good association. Together with eight T.Ls., 4to, n.p., n.d., being a questionnaire related to his novel La Peste (''The Plague''), 1947, containing Camus´ answers and comments, twenty nine lines in total, carefully annotated by Camus in bold black ink, and stating in part `If you re-read La Peste, taking into account the narrator´s personality, you realize for example that the chapter related to the separated lovers..´ further saying `No, the main effort of composition was on the pyramid order of the five parts..´ and he itemizes each part. An extremely interesting literary comments by Camus related to his novel La Peste (''The Plague''). Upper edge of the letter very slightly trimmed and typed pages with filing border, otherwise about EX £2000-3000 L´Etat de Siege (1948) The State of Siege'' is a play by Camus. Arthur Honegger (1892-1955) Swiss Composer. René Char (1907-1988) French Poet and member of the French Resistance.