Albert Camus
7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960
527 works in the book catalog catalog
Biography
Albert Camus was a French Algerian author, philosopher, and journalist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. He was a key philosopher of the 20th-century and his most famous work is the novel *L'Étranger* (*The Stranger*).
In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement, which was a group opposed to some tendencies of the surrealistic movement of André Breton. Camus was the second-youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature - after Rudyard Kipling - when he became the first African-born writer to receive the award. He is the shortest-lived of any literature laureate to date, having died in an automobile accident just over two years after receiving the award.
He is often cited as a proponent of existentialism, the philosophy that he was associated with during his own lifetime, but Camus himself rejected this particular label. In an interview in 1945, Camus rejected any ideological associations: "No, I am not an existentialist. Sartre and I are always surprised to see our names linked…"
Also published as: ALBERT CAMUS, Camus Albert, Albert Cdfmx 5067 Camus, B. F. / Camus, Albert Bart, Albert Cdfmx 5052 Camus, Albert CAMUS
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L’étranger
4.1 · 1942 · 3.1K want to read
La Peste
4.2 · 1942 · 909 want to read
La chute
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Le mythe de Sisyphe
4.2 · 1941 · 585 want to read
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
4.3 · 1955 · 498 want to read
L'Homme révolté
4.4 · 1951 · 248 want to read
La Mort heureuse
3.5 · 1971 · 128 want to read
L'exil et le royaume
3.8 · 1951 · 80 want to read
Perrine's literature, Structure, sound and sense--Eighth edition
4.5 · 2001 · 69 want to read
Perrine's Literature--Structure, Sound & Sense--Twelfth Edition
4.2 · 2015 · 65 want to read
Le premier homme
3 · 1994 · 57 want to read
Literature--An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama and Writing--Eleventh Edition
4.5 · 2006 · 57 want to read
Caligula
4.5 · 1961 · 50 want to read
Prentice Hall Literature--World Masterpieces
5 · 1991 · 49 want to read
Great Short Stories of the World
1972 · 55 want to read
Plays (Caligula / Malentendu / L'État de Siège / Justes)
4 · 1958 · 41 want to read
Lyrical and critical
4 · 1967 · 35 want to read
Essais
4.5 · 1965 · 34 want to read
Correspondance 1944-1959
3 · 2017 · 33 want to read
Carnets
4.5 · 1960 · 23 want to read
Carnets. mai 1935 — fevrier 1942
3 · 1962 · 21 want to read
The Story and Its Writer -- Ninth Edition
2015 · 22 want to read
Les Possédés
4 · 1959 · 19 want to read
The moral life
3.6 · 2000 · 12 want to read