{"product_id":"mon-cher-amour-the-love-letters-of-albert-camus-and-maria-casares-1944-1959-9780525656616","title":"Mon Cher Amour: The Love Letters of Albert Camus and Maria Casares, 1944-1959","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe impassioned correspondence between the Nobel Prize-winning author and the renowned Spanish-born French actress who appeared in his plays, tracing the extreme highs and lows of their all-consuming love affair--a bestseller in France, translated for the first time into English\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlbert. Albert chéri. Write me sweet, passionate things. Tell me you love me and how you love me. Tell me you'll take me to the sea one day--any sea at all--and that we'll spend time on the shore and in the water. Tell me you'll always be with me. Tell me about you, and especially today, talk to me about us. \u003c\/i\u003e--Maria Casarès to Albert Camus, February 1, 1950 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt's said that the affair began on June 6, 1944, the day the Allied forces landed in Normandy. The twenty-one-year-old Casarès was starring in a production of the thirty-year-old Camus's play \u003ci\u003eThe Misunderstanding\u003c\/i\u003e--and one thing (an after-party hosted by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir) led to another. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThough their fling would be cut short by the end of the Occupation--and the return to Paris of Camus's wife, Francine--the two were destined to meet again: four years later, to the day, they crossed paths by chance on the Boulevard Saint-Germain. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOver the next twelve years, without interruption--until the car wreck of January 4, 1960, that stole Camus's life--the author and actress would correspond furiously, their words swelling and shimmering and surging like the ocean. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAh! It's so hard to leave you, your dear face will again fade into the night, but I'll find you once more in this ocean you love, at the time of evening when the sky takes on the color of your eyes. \u003c\/i\u003e--Albert Camus to Maria Casarès, June 1, 1949 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAcross 865 letters of immense and exquisite emotion, they cry and laugh and bicker and beg, make and break promises, talk Stendhal and Proust and Orwell, French theater, sickness, death, writer's block, and, most of all, they pine--leaving behind a record of one of the great love stories of the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Albert Camus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/21\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 1200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.48lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.42h x 6.39w x 2.11d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780525656616\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn in Algeria in 1913, ALBERT CAMUS published \u003ci\u003eThe Stranger--\u003c\/i\u003enow one of the most widely read novels of this century--in 1942. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957. On January 4, 1960, he was killed in a car accident. MARIA CASARÈS (1922-1996) was a Spanish-born French actress, known for her roles in the films \u003ci\u003eLes Enfants du Paradis \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne, \u003c\/i\u003e and in the plays of Shakespeare and Cocteau. SANDRA SMITH is a prize-winning translator of more than forty books, including works by Irène Némirovsky, Albert Camus, Simone de Beauvoir, and Guy de Maupassant. CORY STOCKWELL is the translator of Brigitte Giraud's \u003ci\u003eLive Fast\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Albert Camus \/ Hardcover \/ English","offer_id":47876579098781,"sku":"9780525656616","price":81.82,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_0f75f5c6-4706-49cd-a45c-eb169ddf7975.jpg?v=1777382416","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/mon-cher-amour-the-love-letters-of-albert-camus-and-maria-casares-1944-1959-9780525656616","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}