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The first part of the “Albert Camus Notebooks” trilogy, titled “The Game of Cards and Light,” covers the period between 1935 and 1942, while the second part, “Blue Gold,” covers the period between January 1942 and March 1951. The third and final part, “The Grass of Days,” ends in December 1959 and consists of the notebooks that Albert Camus kept from March 1951 until his death. These are not memoirs or diaries in the conventional sense, but rather this three-part journal forms a vast map of key milestones in Camus’s exploration of the geography of writing: the geography of his novels, essays, and plays, and the doubts, struggles, and labor pains that permeated them. The reader feels as though they are listening, moment by moment, to his inner voice and the voices of his characters, as if they were present at their birth, unadorned and unexpected, like raw material untouched by the chisel of conscious writing.
These are the inner worlds of a writer who never settled down or found contentment despite his successes. His soul remained restless, oscillating between unwavering faith in humanity and its values and an unshakeable pessimism rooted in his certainty of life’s absurdity.
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