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ISBN-10: 1787383865
ISBN-13: 9781787383869
Publisher: Hurst & Co.
Publish Date: 01/15/2021
Dimensions: 7.50" L, 4.90" W, 0.70" H

Death of Camus

Foreword by: Paul Auster

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Price: $17.95

Overview

In 1960 a mysterious car crash killed Albert Camus and his publisher Michel Gallimard, who was behind the wheel. Based on meticulous research, Giovanni Catelli builds a compelling case that the 46-year-old French Algerian Nobel laureate was the victim of premeditated murder: he was silenced by the KGB.

The Russians had a motive: Camus had campaigned tirelessly against the Soviet crushing of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, and vociferously supported the awarding of the Nobel Prize to the dissident novelist Boris Pasternak, which enraged Moscow.

Sixty years after Camus’ death, Catelli takes us back to a murky period in the Cold War. He probes the relationship between Camus and Pasternak, the fraught publication of Doctor Zhivago, the penetration of France by Soviet spies, and the high price paid by those throughout Europe who resisted the USSR.

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"In this disturbing book, Giovanni Catelli sets out to solve the riddle of the car accident that killed Albert Camus and his publisher, Michel Gallimard, on 4 January 1960. Based on years of meticulous research, the author builds a compelling argument to support his contention that they were the victims of premeditated murder."– Paul Auster

"Catelli learned not to give up hope in the time since he discovered the testimony of Jan Zábrana. His book reads like a detective novel without resolution or punishment – no one was or will be jailed for murdering Camus."– Pagina 12 (Argentina)

"A text of seductive literary, biographical, critical and historical value."– Avvenire

"Catelli succeeds in convincing us that Camus could have been assassinated by the KGB." – Le Monde Libertaire

"Fast-paced and entertaining, reads like a spy novel."– La Capital (Argentina)

"Catelli contends that the KGB was responsible for the auto accident that killed Camus [...] More controversially, he also argues that the French government was complicit in the killing."– Inside Hook

"Kisil maintains that Zabrana did his utmost to find 'credible and objective sources' of information in the USSR. 'It's possible – and actually even probable – that he could have met someone from this circle of people who told him about the assassination of Camus, and who themselves had heard it from someone close to the upper echelons of the Communist Party, ' he said."– Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

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Details

ISBN-10: 1787383865
ISBN-13: 9781787383869
Publisher: Hurst & Co.
Publish Date: 01/15/2021
Dimensions: 7.50" L, 4.90" W, 0.70" H
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