Camus and Ocampo | Book

The South American brand has just published a book whose reading, initially guided by a certain curiosity, then becomes addictive. Victoria Ocampo-Albert Camus. Correspondence (1946-1959) It brings together the exchange of letters expressing the friendship between the Argentine cultural promoter and the famous French writer. The relationship, which arose from the translation of Caligula –for subsequent publication in South– from Ocampo, it lasted until the death of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1960. The book is completed by the reproduction in facsimile of key documents of the history that united them. The letters contain winks, complaints and affectionate greetings. "His phone is as deaf as God the Father", accuses Camus in an exchange. "Do not believe Sartre, without the others, there would be no paradise," says the author of L & # 39; abroad alluding to his countryman, with whom he then competed intellectually. Ocampo sympathizes with Camus before the ban on work in Buenos Aires Misunderstanding", and is allowed to give his opinion about other writers." Arthur Koestler says: "Gangster is given from a Paramount blockbuster, at least looking! It's between us. "