CAMUS ALBERT: (1913-1960) French Author and Philosopher. Nobel Prize winner in Literature, 1957. A g...

CAMUS ALBERT: (1913-1960) French Author and Philosopher. Nobel Prize winner in Literature, 1957. A g...
CAMUS ALBERT: (1913-1960) French Author and Philosopher. Nobel Prize winner in Literature, 1957. A good T.L.S., `Albert Camus´, one page, 4to, Paris, 25th July 1958, on the Librairie Gallimard printed stationery, to Monsieur Roger Ikor, in French. A very interesting content letter, with unusual Camus´ thoughts, stating in part `I find your letter on my return from Greece, where I tried very scrupulously to forget our common miseries. I find now again the same concerns but with better health. If I understand properly what you tell me, you think that a newspaper would be at today´s date the best way for a feasible movement…´, further saying `Unfortunately, I am an old journalist and I can respond to you that the project presents huge difficulties. To create a weekly publication for example (the creation and not the maintenance) would mean fifty millions approximately. Obviously it is always possible to print for 300.000 francs a sheet which will be read by three hundred enthousiasts, but I suppose that you look for a minimum of efficiency.´ Camus continues advising his correspondent about the difficulties, cost and time that such a project requires, and although he `..would help with optimism if you manage to start this affair´, he states before concluding `Personally, I have already been through such an experience and I do not know if I would repeat for the simple reason that I want to write my books, and with my age I have more and more anxiety (in this regard only) about the time passing by.´ No doubt it is a foreboding thought by Camus, referring to time passing by and to the anxiety he feels because of his wish to write his books and the time he needs. Camus died in a car accident less than a year and a half later, without finishing any new novel. Extremely small creasing, otherwise VG