Death of Camus

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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. Cover Half-title Title Copyrights Dedication Contents List of Photographs Acknowledgements Foreword Introduction A Conspiracy Symmetry The Dream The Journey The Departure The Prague Man Jan Zábrana The Truth Honour and Fate The Words Hungary The Appeal Salle Wagram, 15 March 1957 The Images The Fatal Journey The Site of the Crash The KGB’s Actions in Camus’ Times Time The Page Prague The Conversation The Contact Kavárna Velryba The Phone Call A Conversation at Café Slavia Marie Zábranová The Sources Marie Zábranová’s Story Camus and Pasternak In Pursuit of Doctor Zhivago Suspicion The Truth About the Nagy Affair A Peaceful Libertarian A Valediction: Albert Camus Has Died Appendix Photographs