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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
1313 words, approx. 4.4 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 toler... summary from source:
 Biography of Albert Camus
13612 words, approx. 45.4 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 p... summary from source:
 Biography of Albert Camus
5334 words, approx. 17.8 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 th...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 The Plague Information
1,534 words, approx. 5 pages
The Plague (Fr. La Peste) is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947, that tells the story of medical workers finding solidarity in their labour as the Algerian city of Oran is swept by a plague. It asks a number of questions relating to the nature...
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 The Village Voice The plagues
01/29/2002: 496 words, approx. 2 pages Flirting With Disaster THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES Directed by Mark Pellington Written by Richard Hatem Screen Gems Opens January 25 MAELSTROM Written and directed by Denis Villeneuve Arrow Opens January 25 Layering sexy Hitchcockian paranoia over oddball... summary from source:
Economic Review Plague alert information sheet on plague.
09/01/1994: 999 words, approx. 3 pages Early diagnosis, proper treatment and quarantine of suspected cases are of paramount importance. It is important to keep the public informed through information and educational media messages. Panic is not a substitute for alertness. The outbreak of plague which occurred in the... summary from source:
 AP News In Bangladesh, the plagues are many
11/24/2007: 585 words, approx. 2 pagesThe cyclone that ravaged Bangladesh's coast has left the country reeling, but for many here already weary of hardship it just seemed like the latest in a series of plagues afflicting the nation.There's the grinding poverty that forces some 60 million people to live on... summary from source:
The New York Observer At U.S. Naval War College, Scholar Likens Iraq to Plague
6/14/2006: 538 words, approx. 2 pagesYesterday the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, opened its annual conference on international strategy with a speech from the Navy Secretary in a vast hall, followed by a panel on American power composed of three scholars, all of whom had opposed the war...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Philip Mooney
1,260 words, approx. 4 pages
For Albert Camus the struggle to achieve meaning in human life must always be an affirmation of the love that engendered it. This conviction is the key thematic in Camus' novel, The Plague and finds expression in the character Tarrou. Tarrou's is a quest for total meaning in life: "What interests me is learning how to become a saint." Tarrou is definite about the path he must follow to reach the peace assuring meaning to life. It is the "path of sympathy," the way o... summary from source:
Critical Essay by IrÈne Finel-honigman
958 words, approx. 3 pages
In his notebooks and in his novel The Plague, Albert Camus often describes the city of Oran in negative terms. He stresses the qualities or characteristics Oran lacks, seeing in this absence a source of inspiration. In Camus' universe the cities of North Africa, Oran and Alger, serve an essential function. They are not only the background for his works but they are the embodiment of man's relationship with his environment. The topos of Camus' world revolves around a desert-city dichotom... Featured Essays
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 Essay Grade: 92%The Plague an Authentic Interpretation
5,084 words, approx. 17 pages
The Plague, by Camus, as an allegorical representation of the metaphysical rebellion of man against Creation, projects a three-fold movement and each of them is inextricably linked up through cause and effect. The first is the absurdity of existence, the second is the apogeal absurdity ensuing profound alienation and the third is man's inexorable fight against such a predicament. summary from source:
Essay Grade: 86%Themes in Albert Camus' "The Plague."
2,459 words, approx. 8 pages
Provides biographical detail on the author Albert Camus. Explores major themes in his novel, "The Plague." Details how Camus attempts to portray the suffocation from which we all suffer, and the atmosphere of menace and exile in which we all live. summary from source:
Essay Grade: 91%
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