His last major work was
La chute (
The Fall), a novel that appeared in 1956. In 1960 Camus was killed in an automobile accident.
Although Camus studied philosophy for a number of years at the University of Algiers, he was not a philosopher in any technical or academic sense. Nevertheless, virtually all his literary work was deeply influenced by philosophical ideas, and in two major essays, The Myth of Sisyphus and The Rebel, he undertook a more or less systematic exposition and defense of the moral attitudes that had in each case found expression in his novels and plays. The Myth of Sisyphus can thus be regarded as in some sense a philosophical commentary on The Stranger, and The Rebel has clear affinities with The Plague. There can be no doubt that there are profound differences between the views set forth in these two essays. Camus's philosophical career was essentially a movement away from the nihilism of The Myth of Sisyphus toward the humanism of The Rebel. Ideas that had been present in his work from the beginning, in one form or another, were to retain their place there; but he progressively revised his views of their relative importance within the moral life.
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