Albert Camus's "Notebooks" - an attempt to restore the original manuscripts and to search for a new image of Camus

• Project/Area Number: 26370368
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: European literature
• Research Institution: Nihon University
• Principal Investigator: Takatsuka Hiroyuki 日本大学, 国際関係学部, 准教授 (90297771)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
• Budget Amount: ¥3,120,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥720,000); Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
• Keywords: カミュ / 手帖 / 草稿研究 / 生成研究 / 最初の人間 / 追放と王国 / カルネ / カイエ / ノート

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Albert Camus's "Notebooks" were for a long time considered a primary, and, in a way,‘objective’source for insight into the writer's life and works. They were never published during his lifetime, seemingly left intact by his sudden death in a car accident in 1960. Yet Camus had typescripts of his "Notebooks" or "Cahiers" as he called them, and did revise and refine them. The focus of my study has been the manuscripts and typescripts of "Cahier I" and "Cahier VII", which are the most revised of the nine "Cahiers", in order to issue, in the near future, the critical edition of Camus's "Notebooks", which should shine a renewed light on his life and art.
As a result of my investigations over three years at Bibliotheque Mejanes, city library of Aix-en-Provence, I have published a series of papers on Camus's revisions to the "Notebooks" as well as on the development of "Exile and the Kingdom", a 1957 collection of short stories, and the posthumously published novel "The First Man".

Research Products

• [Journal Article] アルベール・カミュ『手帖』第7ノート ― 決定稿までの2段階の修正 (2017)
  • Author(s): 高塚浩由樹
  • Journal Title: カミュ研究 Volume: 第13号
  • NAID: 40021375386
  • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] La Source "russe" de L’Hote dans L’Exil et le Royaume (2015)
  • Author(s): Hiroyuki Takatsuka
  • Journal Title: 『カミュ研究 Etudes camusiennes』 Volume: 第12号 Pages: 87-103
  • NAID: 40021375365
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] 『手帖』第7ノート ― その日付（dates）とクロノロジー (2016)
  • Author(s): 高塚浩由樹
  • Organizer: 日本カミュ研究会
  • Place of Presentation: キャンパスプラザ京都（京都府京都市）
  • Year and Date: 2016-12-24
• [Presentation] 「客」とトルストイ － カミュ『手帖』から探る『追放と王国』の形成過程 (2014)
  • Author(s): 高塚浩由樹
  • Organizer: 日本カミュ研究会
  • Place of Presentation: キャンパスプラザ京都
  • Year and Date: 2014-12-20
• [Book] Camus l'artiste (2015)
  • Author(s): Sophie Bastien, Anne Prouteau, Agnes Spiquel編； 高塚浩由樹
  • Total Pages: 334
  • Publisher: Presses Universitaires de Rennes
• [Remarks] 日本大学研究者情報システム
  • URL: http://kenkyu-web.cin.nihon-u.ac.jp/Profiles/39/0003810/profile.html