Albert Camus - Lyrical and Critical Essays

FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, SEPTEMBER, 1970
Copyright© 1968 by Allred A. Knopf, Inc., Copyright© 1967 by Hamish Hamilton, Ltd., and
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in
the United States by Allred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, and simultanously in Canada by Random
House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Distributed by Random House, Inc.
Originally published by Allred A. Knopf, Inc., on October 7, 1968
LYRICAL ESSAYS
The section ‘’The Wrong Side and the Right Side” was originally published in French as “L’Envers
et L’Endroit,” © Copyright 1958 by Editions Gallimard. The section “Nuptials” was
originally published in French as “Noces,” Copyright 1950 by Librairie Gallimard.
The essays in “Summer” were originally published in French as “L’Ete,” Copyright 1954 by
Librairie Gallimard, with the exception of ‘’The Rains of New York,” which first appeared in
French in the Pieiade edition of Theatre, Recits et Nouvelles, a two-volume work © Copyright
1963 by Editions Gallimard, and “The Minotaur,” “Helen’s Exile,” and “Return to Tipasa,” which
were first published in French in Le Mythe de Sisyphe, Copyright 1942 by Lihrairie Gallimard,
and in English in The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays, © Copyright 1955 by Alfred A. Knopf,
Inc., translated by Justin O’Brien.
CRITICAL ESSAYS
With the exception of those cited below, these essays were originally published in French in
the two-volume Pleiade edition of Camus’s Theatre, Recits et Nouvelles, © Copyright 1956 by
Lihrairie Gallimard.
“Roger Martin du Gard” originally appeared in French as the preface to the Pleiade edition of
L’Oeuvres Complets de Roger Martin du Gard, ©Copyright 1956 by Librairie Gallimard. “Encounters
with Andre Gide” was first published in French as “Rencontres avec Andre Gide” in the
Nouvelle Nouvelle Revue Francaise in 1951, Copyright 1951 by Librairie Gallimard.
“On Jean Grenier’s Les lles” was originally published in French as “Sur ‘Les Iles’ du Jean Grenier,”
in Preuves (January 1959), ©Copyright 1959 by Editions Gallimard.
This book was published in Great Britain in 1967 by Hamish Hamilton, Ltd., in a translation by
Philip Thody, under the title Lyrical and Critical.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 67-18621
Manufactured in the United States of America
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