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Albert Camus

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born
in Mondovi, Algeria
November 07, 1913

died
January 04, 1960

gender
male

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genre
Literature & Fiction, Philosophy, Nonfiction

influences
Friedrich Nietzsche, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Herman Melville,...more


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Albert Camus was an Algerian-born French author, philosopher, and journalist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. He is often cited as a proponent of existentialism (the philosophy that he was associated with during his own lifetime), but Camus himself rejected this particular label. Specifically, his views contributed to the rise of the more current philosophy known as absurdism. He wrote in his essay The Rebel that his whole life was devoted to opposing the philosophy of nihilism while still delving deeply into individual freedom.

In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement, which (according to the book Albert Camus, une vie by Olivier Todd) was a group opposed to s...more


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Albert Camus's Books

Average rating: 3.93 · 316,720 ratings · 9,909 reviews · 174 distinct works · Similar authors
The Stranger
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3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 198,618 ratings — published 1942 — 298 editions
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The Plague
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3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 54,113 ratings — published 1947 — 191 editions
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The Fall
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 21,764 ratings — published 1956 — 98 editions
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The Myth of Sisyphus and Ot...
4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 15,729 ratings — published 1942 — 20 editions
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The Rebel: An Essay on Man ...
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 3,970 ratings — published 1951 — 45 editions
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Exile and the Kingdom
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 3,610 ratings — published 1949 — 40 editions
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The Myth of Sisyphus
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4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 3,528 ratings — published 1942 — 56 editions
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A Happy Death
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3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 3,159 ratings — published 1971 — 35 editions
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Caligula
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3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 2,518 ratings — published 1941 — 46 editions
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The First Man
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3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 2,018 ratings — published 1994 — 48 editions
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Series by Albert Camus

The Myth of Sisyphus
Obras de Albert Camus #4 (1 book)
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Quotes by Albert Camus

“Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”
― Albert Camus
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“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
― Albert Camus
tags: happiness, meaning-of-life
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“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus
tags: seasons, strength, trial, triumph
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