Albert Camus (/ kæˈmuː / [2] ka-MOO; French: [albɛʁ kamy] ⓘ; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, novelist, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, [3] and political …

Nov 3, 2025 · Albert Camus (1913–60) was a French novelist, essayist, and playwright, best known for such novels as The Stranger (1942), The Plague (1947), and The Fall (1956) and for his work in …

Oct 27, 2011 · Camus’s philosophy found political expression in The Rebel, which along with his newspaper editorials, political essays, plays, and fiction earned him a reputation as a great moralist.

May 30, 2025 · Albert Camus emerged as a philosopher in post-war France, deconstructing the meaning of life through the lens of existentialism and absurdity.

Apr 20, 2025 · Albert Camus was a renowned author and political journalist, best known for his works 'The Stranger' and 'The Plague,' which explore themes of absurdism. He won the Nobel Prize for …

Albert Camus (1913-1960) was a representative of non-metropolitan French literature. His origin in Algeria and his experiences there in the thirties were dominating influences in his thought and work.

Nov 6, 2023 · Camus examines the problem of suicide in a philosophical light using the Ancient Greek Myth of Sisyphus, the man condemned to push a rock up a mountain only to see it fall back down …

Our Albert Camus biography is in three parts: 1913-43 covering his birth to the publication of The Stranger and Myth of Sisyphus; 1943-51 covering his work for Combat to the publication of The …

He was the second child of Lucien Auguste Camus, a military veteran and wine-shipping clerk, and of Catherine Helene (Sintes) Camus, a house-keeper and part-time factory worker.

In fact, Camus, like many other existential writers, eschewed the label “existentialist,” preferring to be known as a man and a thinker, rather than a member of a school or ideology. Camus struggled to …