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Albert Camus


Born
in Mondovi, French Algeria
November 07, 1913

Died
January 04, 1960

Genre
Fiction, Philosophy

Influences
Friedrich Nietzsche, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Edmund Husserl, H ...more


Works, such as the novels The Stranger (1942) and The Plague (1947), of Algerian-born French writer and philosopher Albert Camus concern the absurdity of the human condition; he won the Nobel Prize of 1957 for literature.

Origin and his experiences of this representative of non-metropolitan literature in the 1930s dominated influences in his thought and work.

He also adapted plays of Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Lope de Vega, Dino Buzzati, and Requiem for a Nun of William Faulkner. One may trace his enjoyment of the theater back to his membership in l'Equipe, an Algerian group, whose "collective creation" Révolte dans les Asturies (1934) was banned for political reasons.

Of semi-proletarian parents, early attached to intellectu ...more

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Average rating: 4.03 · 2,168,121 ratings · 130,198 reviews · 1,080 distinct works • Similar authors
The Stranger
4.03 avg rating — 1,390,356 ratings — published 1942 — 5 editions
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The Plague
4.02 avg rating — 313,265 ratings — published 1947 — 3 editions
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The Fall
4.03 avg rating — 134,494 ratings — published 1956 — 4 editions
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The Myth of Sisyphus
4.17 avg rating — 92,946 ratings — published 1942 — 48 editions
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4.22 avg rating — 65,247 ratings — published 1942 — 52 editions
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A Happy Death
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The Rebel
4.14 avg rating — 18,823 ratings — published 1951 — 239 editions
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Caligula
4.10 avg rating — 17,144 ratings — published 1944 — 139 editions
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Exile and the Kingdom
3.83 avg rating — 15,750 ratings — published 1957 — 244 editions
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The First Man
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Series by Albert Camus

Notebooks 1935-1942 Notebooks, 1942-1951 Notebooks 1951-1959 یادداشت‌ها
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Quotes by Albert Camus  (?)
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“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just 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
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“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus
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June 2015 New School Classics Group Read

Which book would you like to read for our June 2015 New School group read?

1947, The Plague by Albert Camus, 308 pages
 
  9 votes, 20.9%

1931, The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, 418 pages
 
  7 votes, 16.3%

 
  6 votes, 14.0%

1989, A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving, 637 pages
 
  5 votes, 11.6%

1956, Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, 159 pages
 
  4 votes, 9.3%

1905, The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, 335 pages
 
  3 votes, 7.0%

 
  3 votes, 7.0%

1941, Chess Story by Stefan Zweig, 84 pages
 
  3 votes, 7.0%

1965, Stoner by John Williams, 288 pages
 
  1 vote, 2.3%

1944, Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, 351 pages
 
  1 vote, 2.3%

1981, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, 647 pages
 
  1 vote, 2.3%

1904, The Sea Wolf by Jack London, 425 pages
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

 
  0 votes, 0.0%

1921, Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini, 359 pages
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

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