Albert Camus: Prophet of Our Age: Olivier Todd Interviewed by Eleanor Wachtel‪.‬

For many, Albert Camus' novels have afforded an easy introduction to the great questions of Western philosophy. Olivier Todd, Camus' biographer, delves into these questions and describes how they relate to the personal crises in the French writer's life. He also explains why Camus' stature as the prophet of our post-ideological age is likely to survive well into the next century. ELEANOR WACHTEL: Albert Camus is one of the most widely read and most cherished of twentieth-century French writers. What is it that makes his work so popular, so appealing still?