Correspondence (1944-1959) by Albert Camus & Maria Casarès (.ePUB)
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Correspondence (1944-1959) by Albert Camus & Maria Casarès
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Overview: On March 19, 1944, Albert Camus and Maria Casarès met at Michel Leiris’s home. The former student of the Conservatory, originally from La Coruña and the daughter of a Spanish Republican in exile, was only twenty-one years old. She had begun her career in 1942 at the Théâtre des Mathurins, at the time Albert Camus published The Stranger with Gallimard. The writer was then living alone in Paris, the war having kept him away from his wife Francine, a teacher in Oran. Sensitive to the actress’s talent, Albert Camus entrusted her with the role of Martha for the premiere of The Misunderstanding in June 1944. And during the night of D-Day, Albert Camus and Maria Casarès became lovers. This was only the prelude to a great love story, which would not truly begin until 1948. Until the writer’s accidental death in January 1960, Albert and Maria never stopped writing to each other, especially during the long weeks of separation due to their artistic and intellectual commitments, their time spent in the countryside, or their family obligations. Against the backdrop of their public lives and creative activities (books and lectures for the writer; the Comédie-Française, tours, and the TNP for the actress), their correspondence reveals the intensity of their intimate relationship, experienced in longing and absence as much as in mutual consent, the burning of desire, the joy of shared days, collaborative work, and the quest for true love, its perfect expression, and its fulfillment. We knew that Albert Camus’s work was permeated by the thought and experience of love. The publication of this vast correspondence reveals a cornerstone of this constant preoccupation. “When you have loved someone, you always love them,” Maria Casarès confided long after Albert Camus’s death; “once you have not been alone, you are never alone again.”
This is an unofficial translation intended for personal, not commercial, use. Translation and cover (modified from the original) by Rb.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs
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