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A very small book with 2 essays which I read this morning and then went to see the Albert Camus exhibition in town celebrating 100 years since his birth, a mix of old and new, copies of his original handwritten notes and type written drafts with scribbles as well as projected words on a screen that start out as quotes and then all the letters abandon their form and fly individually across the screen eventually settling back into a form we can read.

The Sea Close By is excellent, most of it is written as if at sea and though not much happens, it could not be more different than the way Hemingway depicts a man at sea. Camus is always in good company with his lexicon of words and seeing beauty in the mundane. The way he writes about waves, wind, the moon, night and day is mesmerising.

Must follow up and read l'etranger to commemorate.