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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 · 1,713,596 ratings · 87,997 reviews · 827 distinct works • Similar authors
The Stranger
4.02 avg rating — 1,090,917 ratings — published 1942 — 52 editions
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The Plague
4.02 avg rating — 263,083 ratings — published 1947 — 1413 editions
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The Fall
4.04 avg rating — 106,112 ratings — published 1956 — 465 editions
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The Myth of Sisyphus
4.18 avg rating — 59,676 ratings — published 1942 — 406 editions
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4.22 avg rating — 57,308 ratings — published 1942 — 49 editions
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A Happy Death
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The Rebel
4.14 avg rating — 15,960 ratings — published 1951 — 220 editions
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Caligula
4.10 avg rating — 13,879 ratings — published 1944 — 128 editions
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Exile and the Kingdom
3.86 avg rating — 13,239 ratings — published 1950 — 198 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
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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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