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Camus, Albert(1913–1960)
Albert Camus, the French novelist and essayist, was born in Mondovi, Algeria, and was educated at the University of Algiers. From 1934 to 1939 he was active writing and...
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The French novelist, essayist, and playwright Albert Camus (1913-1960) was obsessed with the philosophical problems of the meaning of life and of man's search for values in a world without God. His wo...
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Literary scholars place Albert Camus as North Africa's first writer of consequence. A pied-nort, or French citizen born in Algeria while it was a colony of France still, Camus emerged from a decidedly...
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Albert Camus is one of the best-known twentieth-century French authors. Born and raised in North Africa, after the beginning of World War II he moved to Paris where he intended to pursue his career as...
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Critical Essay by Serge Doubrovsky
On the whole, it can be said that Camus is the great writer American literature has waited for and who never came. The generation of Faulkner, Dos Passos, and Heming...
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Critical Essay by Germaine BrÉe
Camus's rapid rise to celebrity between 1942 and 1945 is unparalleled in the history of French literature: The Stranger, The Myth of Sisyphus, the two pla...
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Critical Essay by Alfred Cismaru and Theodore Klein
It is customary to think of Camus as the great apostle of life in this century, and to view his work as testimony to the acceptability, indeed the w...
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Critical Essay by Henri Peyre
The works of Camus, as they stand interrupted by fate, utter a pagan message which is to be set beside that of the great pagans of antiquity and that of some of the moder...
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Critical Essay by Donald Lazere
To appreciate Camus fully … it is necessary to encounter as an ensemble his novels, stories, plays, philosophical and lyrical essays, journalistic political crit...
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Critical Essay by Henry Popkin
So honest a man as Camus is obviously at a disadvantage in so dishonest an institution as the theater. His sincerity has become a legend, but it has prevented him from b...
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Critical Essay by Rima Drell Reck
Albert Camus' expression of "tragedy in modern dress" portrays men struggling with the emotional and psychological facts of alienation by means o...
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Critical Essay by Albert Sonnenfeld
Nowhere but in France, it seems, do men of letters whose greatest talent clearly lies in other genres devote so much of their creative energy to the theatre. The Go...
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Critical Essay by James H. Clancy
[The essay from which the following excerpt is taken originally appeared in Educational Theatre Journal, October 1961.]
One of the most frequently noted aspects of th...
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Critical Essay by F. C. St. Aubyn
The critics have long since demonstrated that while Camus was not an existentialist, Sartrian or otherwise, there are nevertheless existential elements in his thought...
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Critical Essay by D. M. Church
When Le Malentendu was first produced at the Théâtre des Mathurins in 1944, it was not a complete success, but neither was it a complete failure. (p. 33)
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In the following essay, Woolfolk discusses Camus's political sympathies and overriding artistic ideals. According to Woolfolk, Camus resisted participation in revolutionary causes due to his be...
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In the following essay, Cohn provides an overview of Camus's literary career. Cohn praises Camus as "beyond all intellectual fashions and ideological factions, the finest, most authentic...
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Also in this essay Woolfolk shows what Camus thinks of writing as free process without limitations. Finally, Woolfolk gives different examples and counter arguments of Camus' thoughts of Marxism and C...
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From the point of view of Camus, absurd is a synonym for "difficult to know" or "having no definite answer." He believes that the gap between absurdity and clarity can never be filled and people have ...
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Camus, Albert (1913–1960)
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
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Critical Essay by Serge Doubrovsky
Camu and the True Artist
