Albert Camus (/kæmˈuː/ kam-OO; French: [albɛʁ kamy] ; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, dramatist, journalist, world...
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The Outsider, is a 1942 novella written by French author Albert Camus. The first of Camus's novels published in his lifetime, the story follows Meursault...
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The Myth of Sisyphus (category Essays by Albert Camus)
philosophical essay by Albert Camus. Influenced by philosophers such as Søren Kierkegaard, Arthur Schopenhauer, and Friedrich Nietzsche, Camus introduces his...
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Amor fati (section Albert Camus)
philosopher Albert Camus, in his 1942 essay on "The Myth of Sisyphus", explores ideas similar to those of Nietzsche. According to Camus's philosophy of...
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Absurdism (section Albert Camus)
The term "absurdism" is most closely associated with the philosophy of Albert Camus. However, important precursors and discussions of the absurd are also...
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The Plague (novel) (redirect from The Plague (Camus))
The Plague (French: La Peste) is a 1947 absurdist novel by Albert Camus. It tells the story from the point of view of a narrator in the midst of a plague...
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The Fall (French: La Chute) is a philosophical novel by Albert Camus. First published in 1956, it is his last complete work of fiction. Set in Amsterdam...
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specializing in Bach. She was also a mathematician. She was the second wife of Albert Camus, whom she met in 1937 in Algiers. They were married in Lyon on 3 December...
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century, prominent existentialist thinkers included Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Karl Jaspers, Gabriel Marcel,...
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Atheistic existentialism (section Albert Camus)
Sartre) while others are quite affected by existential anguish (e.g. Albert Camus and his discussion of the Absurd and Friedrich Nietzsche who articulated...
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Ivan Fyodorovich Karamazov (section Albert Camus)
'Albert Camus' Literary Criticism of Ivan Karamazov' Albert Camus' Literary Criticism of Ivan Karamazov - UBC Wiki French-Algerian philosopher Albert Camus...
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of plot and characters. Major absurdist authors include Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, Samuel Beckett, and Eugène Ionesco. A great deal of absurdist fiction...
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The Meursault Investigation (category Albert Camus)
by Algerian writer and journalist Kamel Daoud. It is a retelling of Albert Camus' 1942 novel, The Stranger. First published in Algeria by Barzakh Editions...
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The Rebel (book) (category Books by Albert Camus)
The Rebel (French: L'Homme révolté) is a 1951 book-length essay by Albert Camus, which treats both the metaphysical and the historical development of rebellion...
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Lycée Albert Camus may refer to: Lycée français Albert Camus, a French secondary school in Conakry, Guinea Lycée Albert Camus (Bois-Colombes), a French...
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Look up Camus or camus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Albert Camus (1913–1960) was a French philosopher, writer, and journalist. Camus or CAMUS may also...
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the Sisypheum. Albert Camus, in his 1942 essay The Myth of Sisyphus, saw Sisyphus as personifying the absurdity of human life, but Camus concludes "one...
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The Guest (short story) (category Short stories by Albert Camus)
"The Guest" (French: L'Hôte) is a short story by the French writer Albert Camus. It was first published in 1957 as part of a collection entitled Exile...
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November 2017). "Albert Camus's sizzling letters to one of his three lovers". The Irish Times. Retrieved 13 April 2018. "Albert Camus: A Life" by Olivier...
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Caligula (play) (category Plays by Albert Camus)
Caligula is a play written by Albert Camus, begun in 1938 (the date of the first manuscript is 1939) and published for the first time in May 1944 by Éditions...
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brought him to power that surpassed him. Caligula, by French author Albert Camus, is a play in which Caligula returns after deserting the palace for three...
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The First Man (category Novels by Albert Camus)
(French: Le Premier homme) is Albert Camus' unfinished final novel. On January 4, 1960, at the age of forty-six, Camus died in a car accident. The incomplete...
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Exile and the Kingdom (category Short story collections by Albert Camus)
Royaume) is a 1957 collection of six short stories by French writer Albert Camus. First published in French, in translation, it was not well received...
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1945 article, Albert Camus wrote: "The idea that a pessimistic philosophy is necessarily one of discouragement is a puerile idea." Camus helped popularize...
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Jean Sénac (section Relationship with Albert Camus)
was renowned for a long-running relationship and correspondences with Albert Camus. A portion of his papers are stored at the City Archives in Marseille...
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Tipasa (section Tribute to Albert Camus)
facing the sea and Mount Chenoua, a stele was erected in 1961 in honor of Albert Camus with this phrase in French, extracted from his work Noces à Tipasa: “I...
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Nasos Ktorides (section Albert Camus' letter)
handwritten manuscript by the philhellene Nobel laureate and philosopher, Albert Camus, appealing to Queen Elizabeth II for mercy for the young Greek Cypriot...
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The Stranger (1967 film) (category Films based on works by Albert Camus)
is a 1967 film by Italian film director Luchino Visconti, based on Albert Camus's 1942 novel The Stranger, with Marcello Mastroianni. Arthur Mersault's...
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The Misunderstanding (category Plays by Albert Camus)
Purpose, is a play written in 1943 in occupied France by Albert Camus. It focuses on Camus’ idea of The Absurd. A man who has been living overseas for...
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Killing an Arab (category Albert Camus)
Stranger) by Albert Camus". The lyrics describe a shooting on a beach, in which the titular Arab is killed by the song's narrator; in Camus' story the protagonist...
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