The Notebooks are translated in a complete and unabridged form from the original French edition based directly on the manuscript copy which Camus himself had made before his death. Notes have been added with page references to both French and American editions of Camus's works, illustrating the way in which some of the entries were worked into the final versions of his earlier essays and of his first two novels, The Stranger and The Plague. Thus the Notebooks provide a record of one of the most unusual minds of our time.