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| Name: |
Albert Camus | | Birth Date: |
November 7, 1913 | | Death Date: |
January 4, 1960 | | Place of Birth: |
Mondovi, Algeria | | Place of Death: |
Paris, France | | Nationality: |
French | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
novelist, essayist, playwright |
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 Biography of Albert Camus
1,313 words, approx. 4 pages
 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 work is distinguished by lucidity, moderation, and... summary from source:
 Biography of Albert Camus
13,612 words, approx. 45 pages
 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 a journalist and aspiring writer. In 1942, with the... summary from source:
 Biography of Albert Camus
5,334 words, approx. 18 pages
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 tough, underprivileged background to become one of... 
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 Albert Camus Quotes
11,071 words, approx. 37 pages
Albert Camus ( 1913-11-07 - 1960-01-04 ) was an Algerian- French author and Absurdist philosopher . Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 The Stranger (1942) 1.2 The Myth of Sisyphus (1942) 1.2.1 An Absurd Reasoning 1.2.2 The Absurd Man 1.2.3 Absurd Creation 1.2.4...
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 Camus, Albert
1,326 words, approx. 4 pages(born Nov. 7, 1913, Mondovi, Alg.—died Jan. 4, 1960, near Sens, France) French novelist, essayist, and playwright, best known for such novels as L'Étranger (1942; The Stranger), La Peste (1947; The Plague), and La Chute (1956; The Fall)... summary from source:
Camus, Albert
168 words, approx. 1 pages(born Nov. 7, 1913, Mondovi, Alg.—died Jan. 4, 1960, near Sens, France) Algerian-French novelist, essayist, and playwright. Born into a working-class family, Camus graduated from the university in Algiers and then worked with a theatrical... summary from source:
 Camus, Albert (1913–1960) Summary
3,537 words, approx. 12 pagesCamus, 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 producing plays for a theater group he had founded... summary from source:
 Albert Camus Information
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Albert Camus (IPA: [albɛʁ kamy]) (November 7, 1913 – January 4, 1960) was a French author and philosopher who won the Nobel prize in 1957. He is often associated with existentialism, but Camus refused this label. On the other hand, as he wrote in...
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 The Christian Century Conservation with Camus.(Albert Camus)(Excerpt)
06/07/2000: 2,538 words, approx. 9 pages DURING SEVERAL summers in the 1950s, Howard Mumma, a Methodist pastor, served as guest minister at the American Church in Paris. After Sunday service one day, he noticed a man in a dark suit surrounded by admirers. Albert Camus had been coming to... summary from source:
Contemporary Review Albert Camus: A Life.
06/01/1998: 561 words, approx. 2 pages Olivier Todd. Translated by Benjamin Ivry. Chatto and Windus. [pounds]15.99. ISBN 0-7011-6062-4 Sartre once remarked that Camus was a cultured urchin, a man who, for all the classical elegance of his prose, really belonged to the back streets of North Africa, not... summary from source:
 AP News French smokers divided on upcoming ban
2/1/2007: 593 words, approx. 2 pagesManuel Bussac predicts he will smoke more and work less when France's ban on smoking in public spaces kicks in Thursday. His firefighter friend, Bernard Geoffrey, says the ban will help him quit his pack-a-day habit.Their opposing views reflect the divide over the latest push... summary from source:
AP News France Smokers divided on ban
2/1/2007: 558 words, approx. 2 pagesA ban on smoking in public spaces came into effect Thursday, a change that may alter the image of a country defined in part by its smoky cafes and cigarette-puffing intellectuals.France's 15 million smokers will be banned from lighting up in workplaces, schools, airports, hospitals...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Donald Lazere
8,549 words, approx. 29 pages
To appreciate Camus fully … it is necessary to encounter as an ensemble his novels, stories, plays, philosophical and lyrical essays, journalistic political criticism, speeches, interviews, and notebooks, as though they formed a single, multivolumed creation like Proust's Remembrance of Things Past or Durrell's Alexandria Quartet. (p. 4) The reader is likely to get his first concrete indication of Camus's dialectical method from his unorthodox custom of making explicit cross-refe... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Robert Greer Cohn
5,272 words, approx. 18 pages
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 voice of his age."
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Critical Essay by Alan W. Woolfolk
5,069 words, approx. 17 pages
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 belief that political ideology limits the artist's experience and creative vision.
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 Essay Grade: 86%Albert Camus on Absurdity
1,183 words, approx. 4 pages
Existentialist author Albert Camus' novels The Outsider (also known as The Stranger) and The Myth of Sisyphus reflect his philosophy of absurdity. To Camus, the gap between absurdity and clarity can never be filled. The only principle of life by which one should cope with the absurd world is to establish one's own identity through exercising freedom and choices. summary from source:
Essay Grade: 86%Camu and the True Artist
541 words, approx. 2 pages
Discusses the french writer Albert Camu. Examines his view of the role of "True artist" in society, where Camus says that a real writer is the one who speaks up for people and understand things without judging them.
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