Volume 45, Number 1 · January 15, 1998
The Outsider
By John Weightman
Albert Camus: A Life
by Olivier Todd, Translated from the French by Benjamin Ivry
Knopf, 434 pp., $30.00
It has to be said that this English version of Olivier Todd's book is not altogether satisfactory. According to an introductory note, 'Some material not of sufficient interest to the American general reader has been omitted to improve the narrative flow.' Actually, a volume some 800 pages long in French has been reduced to 400 pages in English, and it is difficult to tell on what principle the abridgement has been made, because the sections that have been removed often seem of no less importance or interest than those that have been left in. Besides, if the American reader bothers to read foreign books, it is surely in the hope of discovering the possible interest of things with which he is not already familiar.
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