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CAMUS reads standing outside his office at Paris publishe r:s, where he is an editor.
i' f don'/like 10 work siuing do w" . I like to stand IIp--eVet/ at my desk. I probably nted 10 w<'or m yself oul.!'

N the U.S., Albert Camus is best known as a novelist, author of The Plaglle, which a ppea red in 1948, and TIll'? Foil (Knopf), whic h appeared earlier this year. In France he is considerably more, an intellectual in action and a versatile writer who

switches at will from novels to philosoph ical essays (TIlt' Myt" oj Sisyphus) to journalism to writ ing hit
plays (Cliligula) and even direc ting them. " I consider myself a n artist first, almost exclusivdy," says busy Camus. " What is a n artis t? Principally a vital force, and of that, frankly, I thin k I ha ve almos t too much. It wears me o ut." At 43, Camus lives in Paris and jea lously guards his personal privacy-relaxing his restriction s for these exclusive LIFE photographs. He was born poor, in Mondovi, Algeria, "halfway between misery and the sun." Growing up in Africa, he became an actor and alternated playing leading ro les in stock companies with writing his university thesis in philosophy. A fighting editor of the left wing resistance daily Combm during the war, he was closely associated with Existentia1ist j ean-Paul Sartre. But he broke with SaTIre in 1952 over the latter's espousa l of Communist dogma. " It is not the job of intellectuals," declares Camus, "to exalt even slightly the right of the slrongest. ... " Camus early held to the view that all life is an absurdity. But his beliefs appear to have undergone some positive changes with each new work . In The Fall he excoriates the wallowing complacency of the "hero" who , guilty of grave sins against humanity, pleads their historic necessity. His next book, now under way (" 'Sut slowly. I dest roy and start over"), may go further. It deals wit h the Hunga rian revolt "because that is the most important postwar event."

CAM US directs rehearsal of his Caligula at theater where his of Fau lkner's R ..qlli..m for a Nun has played for a year.
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