A handwritten manuscript of the classic French novel L’Étranger by Albert Camus has sold for more than €650,000 (£553,000) at auction, despite bafflement over the reasons for which the Nobel prize-winning author appeared to have faked and backdated it. The bound, 104-page draft of Camus’s novel about a French settler in Algeria who kills an unnamed Arab man went under the hammer in Paris on Wednesday. But the document does not carry the usual literary insights of a scrawled and corrected first draft. Instead, it appears to have been handwritten by Camus in 1944, two years after the novel was...
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