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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

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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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Albert Camus’s books

Average rating: 4.03 · 2,251,527 ratings · 138,580 reviews · 991 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Stranger 4.03 avg rating — 1,447,403 ratings — published 1942 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Plague 4.02 avg rating — 321,631 ratings — published 1947 — 1423 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fall 4.03 avg rating — 139,338 ratings — published 1956 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Myth of Sisyphus 4.16 avg rating — 99,629 ratings — published 1942 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert Camus, Justin O'Brien (Translator) 4.21 avg rating — 66,043 ratings — published 1942 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Happy Death by Albert Camus, Richard Howard (Translator), Jean Sarocchi (Afterword & Notes) 3.80 avg rating — 26,349 ratings — published 1971 — 179 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rebel 4.13 avg rating — 19,294 ratings — published 1951 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Caligula 4.09 avg rating — 17,680 ratings — published 1944 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Exile and the Kingdom 3.83 avg rating — 16,141 ratings — published 1957 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The First Man 3.96 avg rating — 12,542 ratings — published 1994 — 202 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Albert Camus

Notebooks (4 books)
by

Albert Camus,

خشایار دیهیمی (Translator),

شهلا خسروشاهی (Translator)

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Quotes by Albert Camus (?)

“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

tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-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: attributed-no-source, 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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Polls

February 2016 Monthly Short Story Poll

1942, The Stranger by Albert Camus, 123 pages

27 votes, 18.9%

1915, The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka, 98 pages

21 votes, 14.7%

1945, Animal Farm by George Orwell, 102 pages

20 votes, 14.0%

1952, Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, 109 pages

17 votes, 11.9%

1937, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, 103 pages

16 votes, 11.2%

1995, Morning in the Burned House by Margaret Atwood, 127 pages

9 votes, 6.3%

1871, Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, 108 pages

7 votes, 4.9%

1936, Double Indemnity by James M. Cain, 115 pages

7 votes, 4.9%

1894, A Respectable Woman by Kate Chopin, 26 pages

6 votes, 4.2%

1960, Dreamtigers by Jorge Luis Borges, 96 pages

6 votes, 4.2%

1912, Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw, 96 pages

5 votes, 3.5%

1922, The Case of the Registered Letter by Auguste Groner, 64 pages

2 votes, 1.4%

143 total votes

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