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Albert Camus

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…"

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Born 7 November 1913
Died 4 January 1960

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  • Cover of: L'Été

    First published in 1954 — 15 editions
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  • Cover of: The Penguin book of international short stories

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  • Cover of: L' envers et l'endroit

    First published in 1958 — 14 editions
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  • Cover of: Youthful Writings: The First Camus: an Introductory Essay

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  • Cover of: The Range of Literature

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  • Cover of: Lyrical and critical

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  • Cover of: Discours de Suède

    First published in 1958 — 10 editions
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  • Cover of: Correspondence, 1932-1960

    Cover of edition correspondence190000camu First published in 1981 — 10 editions
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  • Cover of: Great Short stories of the World

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  • Cover of: The experience of literature: a reader with commentaries

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  • Cover of: Carnets III

    First published in 1989 — 8 editions
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  • Cover of: American journals

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  • Cover of: Actuelles II: Chroniques 1948-1953

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  • Cover of: Nobel Prize Library: Albert Camus / Winston Churchill

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  • Cover of: Great French short stories

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  • Cover of: La malentendu.

    Cover of edition lemalentendu0000camu First published in 1964 — 7 editions
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  • Cover of: La peste: extraits

    Cover of edition lapeste0000albe First published in 1963 — 6 editions
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  • Cover of: Selected Essays and Notebooks

    First published in 1970 — 6 editions
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  • Cover of: Essais.

    First published in 1965 — 6 editions
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  • Cover of: Understanding fiction

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Born 7 November 1913
Died 4 January 1960

Subjects

Fiction, Literature, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Translations into English, Collections, French literature, Short stories, short story, Islands, Juvenile fiction, freedom, meaning of love, self-fulfilment, selfhood, Big game sport, Camus, albert, 1913-1960, Cossacks, French fiction, Human hunting, Hunting, Hunting stories, Juvenile works, Novela francesa, Philosophy, Romance literature

Places

France, Mallard residence, Amazon rainforest, Caribbean, Ship-Trap Island, Tibet, Algeria, Amsterdam, Louisiana, L’Abri, Paris, The Netherlands, Alabama, Owl Creek Bridge, United States, Amsterdam (Netherlands), Araby, Araby bazaar, Europe, Ireland, North Richmond Street, Paris (France), America, Calcutta, Cambridge

People

Albert Camus (1913-1960), Brently Mallard, Josephine, Louise Mallard, Richards, General Zaroff, Ivan, Sanger Rainsford, The Great White Czar, Whitney, Armand Aubigny, Désirée, Jean-Baptiste Clamence, La Blanche, Sandrine, Madame Valmont, Peyton Farquhar, Caligula Emperor of Rome (12-41), Mangan's sister, Abner Snopes, Alfred A. Knopf, Alonso, Antonio, Ariel, Arthur Conan Doyle

Time

20th century, 19th century, Antebellum era, Siglo XX, 1861-65, 1945-, 1830-1962, 1861-1865, 1940s, Revolution, 1954-1962, Roman era, siglo XX

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  • Camus Albert
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  • B. F. / Camus, Albert Bart
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  • Albert (1913-1960) Camus
  • Albert 1913-1960 Camus
  • Albert 1913-1960 Exil Et Le Camus
  • CAMUS
  • Camus
  • CAMUS A.

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