Albert Camus – Autographed letter signed
Autographed letter signed to Mr. Dynham.
"It's a modern fantasy to want to reduce the novel's hero to his behavior alone."
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Autographed letter signed to Mr. Dynham.
"It's a modern fantasy to want to reduce the novel's hero to his behavior alone."
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Albert Camus (1913.1960)
Autographed letter signed to Mr. Dynham.
One page in-8° on NRF letterhead. No place or date.
“Dear Mr. Dynham, Thank you for your kind letter. It is a modern fantasy to want to reduce the novel's hero to his behavior alone. There is not a single great novel in which the hero does not explain himself, sometimes at length, when it is not the author himself who speaks. The greatest novel I know, War and Peace, contains hundreds of pages of commentary. This does not prevent Natasha Rostov, Bezukhov, or Prince Andrei from possessing great narrative intensity. Neither Melville (not even in the admirable Billy Budd), nor Cervantes, nor Balzac, nor Dickens, nor the classical French novelists deprived themselves of the necessary explanations.”