by Angelique Chrisafis in Paris and agencies on (#6NA93)
Text appears to have been copied out and backdated by Camus in 1944, possibly as a way to raise funds during Nazi occupationA handwritten manuscript of the classic French novel L'Etranger 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. Continue reading...