Discours de Suède
Paris, Gallimard, (6 février) 1958.
1 vol. (120 x 190 mm) de 69 pp. et 3 ff. In wrappers. As published.
First edition. One of 210 copies on vélin pur fil, this one of the hors-commerce copies (copy K).
The volume gathers the speeches delivered by Camus in Sweden upon receiving the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature. Before leaving for Stockholm, Camus sought advice from his friend Roger Martin du Gard, himself the 1937 Nobel laureate, who urged him to use the occasion to make a statement that would be “important, substantial, significant — and memorable.”
Camus did precisely that. His Discours de Suède became one of his essential statements on the writer’s role and responsibility: the necessity of creating and defending human dignity in what he called an age of catastrophe.
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