Albert Camus—Knopf ($3.50 ... finding its opposite mocking him from the bottom of the glass. The book’s best story, The Artist at Work, is a corrosively witty account of the rise and fall ...

In the 20th century, more precisely in 1942, in The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus presented the ... he dies in a car accident. Camus’ books were recognized as significant in the era when ...