{"product_id":"the-complete-notebooks-9780226694818","title":"The Complete Notebooks","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first complete translation of Albert Camus's personal notebooks written between 1933 and 1959, published for the first time in one comprehensive volume.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Throughout his career, French writer and philosopher Albert Camus kept a series of notebooks that offers an unrivaled glimpse into the writer at his most personal and reflective. These notebooks contain his thoughts on politics, solitude, personal failings and regrets, his travels, and his relationships with friends and rivals. They also provide insight into his process as a thinker--his frustrations, his ideas for novels and plays (some pursued and others abandoned), his routines, his aspirations, and his self-recriminations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e For Camus devotees, there is no more intimate experience than reading these notebooks. On the one hand, his fallibility is on full display: He is irritated by mediocrity, frustrated with his health, plagued by insomnia, and miserable about life's petty necessities. Yet, he is also intensely curious and observant, sometimes moved to rapture by landscapes and people. Readers will experience the bounty of Camus's philosophical imagination and witness firsthand how his ideas take shape. The notebooks contain drafts of letters to friends and recorded reflections on the compromises that being in the world demands. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This publication marks the first time Camus's complete notebooks have been published in one comprehensive volume. Expertly and movingly translated by Ryan Bloom with extensive footnotes contextualizing the entries, \u003ci\u003eThe Complete Notebooks\u003c\/i\u003e will remain a literary treasure for years to come.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlbert Camus\u003c\/b\u003e (1913-60) was a French philosopher, writer, and journalist and one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century letters. His widely read and translated works include the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Stranger\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Plague\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Fall\u003c\/i\u003e and the philosophical texts \u003ci\u003eThe Myth of Sisyphus\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Rebel\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eRyan Bloom\u003c\/b\u003e is a literary translator, fiction writer, and essayist from Washington, DC. His translations of Camus's work include \u003ci\u003eCaligula and Three Other Plays\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eTravels in the Americas\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe First Man: The Graphic Novel\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eNotebooks 1951-1959\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a 2024-2025 Guggenheim Fellow and a Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Wesleyan University.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764087062802,"sku":"9780226694818","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4bec7644-f3fa-4c4d-9cea-a55055a86fdf.jpg?v=1764753022","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-complete-notebooks-9780226694818","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}