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French-Algerian · 1913-1960 · 13 quotes
French-Algerian · 1913–1960
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Albert Camus was a French-Algerian novelist, playwright, and philosopher whose work gave definitive form to the concept of the absurd — the collision between the human need for meaning and the universe's silence on the subject. Born in 1913 in Mondovi, Algeria, to a working-class family, he studied philosophy at the University of Algiers while battling tuberculosis, an illness that would shape his understanding of mortality and the value of each moment. His novel The Stranger and his philosophical essay The Myth of Sisyphus, both published in 1942, established him as a major voice of his generation. The Plague followed in 1947 as an allegory of resistance and solidarity. A passionate moralist who resisted easy ideologies, he broke publicly with Sartre over the question of Soviet totalitarianism. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957. He died in a car accident in 1960, aged forty-six.
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