{"product_id":"travels-in-the-americas-notes-and-impressions-of-a-new-world-9780226694955","title":"Travels in the Americas: Notes and Impressions of a New World","description":"\u003cb\u003eAlbert Camus's lively journals from his eventful visits to the United States and South America in the 1940s, available again in a new translation.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In March 1946, the young Albert Camus crossed from Le Havre to New York. Though he was virtually unknown to American audiences at the time, all that was about to change--\u003ci\u003eThe Stranger\u003c\/i\u003e, his first book translated into English, would soon make him a literary star. By 1949, when he set out on a tour of South America, Camus was an international celebrity. Camus's journals offer an intimate glimpse into his daily life during these eventful years and showcase his thinking at its most personal--a form of observational writing that the French call \u003ci\u003echoses vues\u003c\/i\u003e (things seen). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Camus's journals from these travels record his impressions, frustrations, joys, and longings. Here are his unguarded first impressions of his surroundings and his encounters with publishers, critics, and members of the New York intelligentsia. Long unavailable in English, the journals have now been expertly retranslated by Ryan Bloom, with a new introduction by Alice Kaplan. Bloom's translation captures the informal, sketch-like quality of Camus's observations--by turns ironic, bitter, cutting, and melancholy--and the quick notes he must have taken after exhausting days of travel and lecturing. Bloom and Kaplan's notes and annotations allow readers to walk beside the existentialist thinker as he experiences changes in his own life and the world around him, all in his inimitable style.\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. Among his widely read and translated works, the most notable are his novels \u003ci\u003eThe Stranger, The Plague\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Fall\u003c\/i\u003e and the philosophical works \u003ci\u003eThe Myth of Sisyphus \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Rebel\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eAlice Kaplan\u003c\/b\u003e is the Sterling Professor of French at Yale University. She is coauthor of \u003ci\u003eStates of Plague\u003c\/i\u003e, with Laura Marris, and author of \u003ci\u003eSeeing Baya: Portrait of an Algerian Artist in Paris\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLooking for \"The Stranger.\"\u003c\/i\u003e She has been a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award. She lives in Guilford, Connecticut. \u003cb\u003eRyan Bloom\u003c\/b\u003e is a literary translator, fiction writer, and essayist from Washington, DC. His other translations of Camus's work include \u003ci\u003eCaligula and Three Other Plays\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe First Man: The Graphic Novel\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNotebooks 1951-1959\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50614905176338,"sku":"9780226694955","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7b087847-f649-4f38-ba5b-743d440864e4.jpg?v=1749568363","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/travels-in-the-americas-notes-and-impressions-of-a-new-world-9780226694955","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}