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Name:
Albert Camus
Dates:
Born: November 7, 1913 in Mondovi, Algeria
Died: January 4, 1960 in Villeblerin, France (car accident)
Nobel Prize in Literature: 1957
Specialization:
Existentialism
Absurd
Major Works:
The Myth of Sysiphus (1942)
The Stranger (1942)
The Plague (1947)
Biography:
Albert Camus was a French-Algerian journalist and novelist. He is regarded as one of the primary
sources of modern existentialism, and his novels focused on the philosophy that human life is,
objectively speaking, meaningless. This results in absurdity which can only be overcome by a
commitment to moral integrity and social solidarity. Although not a philosopher in the strictest
sense, his philosophy is expressed widely in his novels and he is generally regarded as an
existentialist philosopher.
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