RT Book
T1 The death of Camus
A1 Catelli, Giovanni 1965-
A2 Tanzi, Andrew
A2 Auster, Paul 1947-2024
LA English
PP London
PB Hurst & Company
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1751449696
AB In 1960 a mysterious car crash killed Albert Camus and his publisher Michel Gallimard, who was behind the wheel. Based on meticulous research, Giovanni Catelli builds a compelling case that the 46-year-old French Algerian Nobel laureate was the victim of premeditated murder: he was silenced by the KGB. The Russians had a motive: Camus had campaigned tirelessly against the Soviet crushing of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, and vociferously supported the awarding of the Nobel Prize to the dissident novelist Boris Pasternak, which enraged Moscow. Sixty years after Camus' death, Catelli takes us back to a murky period in the Cold War. He probes the relationship between Camus and Pasternak, the fraught publication of Doctor Zhivago, the penetration of France by Soviet spies, and the high price paid by those throughout Europe who resisted the USSR.
SN 9781787383869
K1 Camus, Albert : 1913-1960 : Death and burial
K1 Soviet Union : Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti
K1 Targeted Killing
K1 Camus, Albert : 1913-1960 : Villeblevin : Tod : Verkehrsunfall : Geschichte 1960
K1 Zábrana, Jan : 1931-1984