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Albert Camus Quotes
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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...


Biography

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
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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 work is distinguished by lucidity, moderation, and...
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Biography of Albert Camus
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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 a journalist and aspiring writer. In 1942, with the...
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Biography of Albert Camus
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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 tough, underprivileged background to become one of...


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Camus, Albert (1913–1960) Summary
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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 producing plays for a theater group he had founded...
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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: 2,536 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 church,...
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Contemporary Review
Albert Camus: A Life.
06/01/1998: 559 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 to...
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Guns ‘n’ Berets: French Resistance Facts
10/3/2007: 361 words, approx. 1 pages
The Fall of France Following disastrous battles against Germany in June 1940, France 's Prime Minister stepped down and was succeeded by the now notorious Marshal Petain . A hero of the Great War, the elderly Petain lost no time in signing an armistice treaty....
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The Quiet Star: A WilliamHurt Quiz
10/8/2007: 316 words, approx. 1 pages
Question 1 of 10:Brave from the beginning, Hurt made his film debut in which surreal, drug-orientated sci-fi drama of 1980? Saturn 3 Altered States Videodrome Brainstorm Question 2 of 10: Hurt 's film star breakthrough came after his performance in the erotic thriller...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Donald Lazere
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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...
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Critical Essay by Robert Greer Cohn
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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 voice of his age."
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Critical Essay by Alan W. Woolfolk
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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 belief that political ideology limits the artist's experience and creative vision.
 
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Albert Camus on Absurdity
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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.
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Camu and the True Artist
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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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