Mon Cher Amour - Albert Camus, Sandra Smith & Cory Stockwell
By Albert Camus, Sandra Smith & Cory Stockwell
Release Date: 2026-04-21
Genre: Fiction & Literature
The impassioned correspondence between the Nobel Prizeâwinning author and the renowned Spanish-born French actress who appeared in his plays, tracing the extreme highs and lows of their all-consuming love affairâa bestseller in France, translated for the first time into English
Albert. Albert chĂŠri. Write me sweet, passionate things. Tell me you love me and how you love me. Tell me youâll take me to the sea one dayâany sea at allâand that weâll spend time on the shore and in the water. Tell me youâll always be with me. Tell me about you, and especially today, talk to me about us. âMaria Casarès to Albert Camus, February 1, 1950
Itâs 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 Camusâs play The Misunderstandingâand one thing (an after-party hosted by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir) led to another.
Though their fling would be cut short by the end of the Occupationâand the return to Paris of Camusâs wife, Francineâthe two were destined to meet again: four years later, to the day, they crossed paths by chance on the Boulevard Saint-Germain.
Over the next twelve years, without interruptionâuntil the car wreck of January 4, 1960, that stole Camusâs lifeâthe author and actress would correspond furiously, their words swelling and shimmering and surging like the ocean.
Ah! Itâs so hard to leave you, your dear face will again fade into the night, but Iâll find you once more in this ocean you love, at the time of evening when the sky takes on the color of your eyes. âAlbert Camus to Maria Casarès, June 1, 1949
Across 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, writerâs block, and, most of all, they pineâleaving behind a record of one of the great love stories of the twentieth century.
Mon Cher Amour - Albert Camus, Sandra Smith & Cory Stockwell
By Albert Camus, Sandra Smith & Cory Stockwell
Release Date: 2026-04-21
Genre: Fiction & Literature
