Quantcast
Channel: The Book Haven » Matthew Ward
Browsing all 3 articles
Browse latest View live

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

More honored than read? Albert Camus’s The Stranger reconsidered

Henri Cartier-Bresson’s iconic 1944 photo in Paris. (Courtesy Magnum/Cartier-Bresson)   “I was poised midway between poverty and sunshine,” wrote Albert Camus, describing his impoverished childhood in...

View Article



Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Translator, poet Matthew Ward and his “immense intellectual hunger.”

A fierce poem from a feverish bed. (Photo courtesy the Ward family) In his brief life, Matthew Ward translated works by Colette, Jean Giraudoux, and Roland Barthes into English – but his favorite...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

So long see you tomorrow, Toby! An evening of Camus, crowds, and many fond...

  I present some surprises to Toby. Another Look’s graphic designer Zoë Patrick at left. (Photo: David Schwartz) Stanford’s Another Look book club was born of one man’s love for a short novel – that...

View Article
Browsing all 3 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images