Un Sac de Billes and L'étranger

I was captivated by Un Sac de Billes the first time I read it, the more so because I had spent a lot of time in my student days in some of the places mentioned like Menton.  The fact that the book is written in a humorous way on a difficult subject is also a big plus.   I am therefore adding at section to the site on the book;  all resources will be on the domain www.unsacdebilles.co.uk   It has overtaken L'étranger now in terms of sales.  I guess for me the only negative is that it is now recognized that Joseph Joffo was helped in editing the book quite considerably;  one does wonder which bits were embellished and which weren't-quite a good task to get students to consider although of course there are no right or wrong answers.

I also thought getting a domain for L'Etranger would be a good thing to give it its own identity on the site.  So more information on L'étranger, go to www.letranger.co.uk   There is quite a bit of controversy at the moment because all Camus' work has been made available to download on a Canadian site-authors only have to have been dead for fifty years for work to go out of copyright there although of course it more here.  Gallimard are rightly very upset about this and personally as a writer myself I agree-it's not fair on publishers as with the music industry.  Authors of course don't have the potential for doing gigs in quite the same way, particularly when they're dead.

Lots more resources are being added to the A level French resources on the site including all the content for the new A*ttitudes course for AS.  Have a look!