Albert Camus Summary

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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 Hemin... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 cri... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 o... Read more

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) ... Read more

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... Read more

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 ... Read more