From Minnesota to Algeria, in the footsteps of Camus

We would have met him in Paris, the port of the house where he would spend three months each summer and where he had a base. But it was from Connecticut, where she taught, that Alice Kaplan traced the genesis of Atlas Househis first novel, which will appear this month in the new Marseille-based publishing house, The noise of the world. “It’s a novel that’s really at home in France and in French because the whole situation speaks French,” he explains. “Right now, he has no home in the Unit...