Albert Camus

A lot has been said about Manolis Glezos, the proud Greek who was the first to publicly stand up to the Nazis and humiliate Hitler by taking down the swastika flag from the Acropolis.

Singer and songwriter Bob Dylan admitted in the Nobel Prize speech he penned that he was always so caught up in his musical endeavors that he had never stopped to consider whether his lyrics had any literary merit.

"Just think, we're talking about one of the most-read books in the world. My brother might have been famous if your author had merely deigned to give him a name… But no, he didn't name him, because if he had, my brother would have caused the murderer a problem with his conscience: You can't easily kill a man when he has a given name."

'The Meursault Investigation' by Kamel Daoud (Other Press, 143 pages, $14.95)