Albert Camus (/ kæˈmuː / kam-OO, [2] French: [albɛʁ kamy] ⓘ; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, novelist, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, [3] and political …

Dec 11, 2025 · Albert Camus (1913–60) was a French novelist, essayist, and playwright, best known for such novels as The Stranger (1942), The Plague (1947), and The Fall (1956) and for his work in …

He was the second child of Lucien Auguste Camus, a military veteran and wine-shipping clerk, and of Catherine Helene (Sintes) Camus, a house-keeper and part-time factory worker.

Oct 27, 2011 · The essential paradox arising in Camus’s philosophy concerns his central notion of absurdity. Accepting the Aristotelian idea that philosophy begins in wonder, Camus argues that …

Albert Camus (1913-1960) was a representative of non-metropolitan French literature. His origin in Algeria and his experiences there in the thirties were dominating influences in his thought and work.

In fact, Camus, like many other existential writers, eschewed the label “existentialist,” preferring to be known as a man and a thinker, rather than a member of a school or ideology. Camus struggled to …

Apr 20, 2025 · Albert Camus was a renowned author and political journalist, best known for his works 'The Stranger' and 'The Plague,' which explore themes of absurdism. He won the Nobel Prize for …

The ACS exists to promote scholarship on the life and work of Albert Camus by providing an international platform to share, exchange and debate ideas and research in order to explore and …

Nov 6, 2023 · Camus examines the problem of suicide in a philosophical light using the Ancient Greek Myth of Sisyphus, the man condemned to push a rock up a mountain only to see it fall back down …

Sep 10, 2025 · For Camus, achieving happiness was challenging precisely because the world is meaningless. He maintained that we must actively construct both meaning and happiness as a …