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Albert Camus

7 November 1913 - 4 January 1960

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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    First published in 1982 3 editions in 1 language
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    First published in 1988 3 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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    First published in 1991 2 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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Subjects
Fiction, Literature, meaning of love, selfhood, freedom, short story, History, self-fulfilment, Collections, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Translations into English, French literature, American Civil War, Classic Literature, Confederate States of America, Juvenile audience, Union, civil war, hanging, Romance literature, French Authors, Short stories, Imagination, Juvenile fiction, Camus, albert, 1913-1960
Places
Mallard residence, Alabama, France, Owl Creek Bridge, United States, Algeria, Amazon rainforest, Caribbean, Louisiana, L’Abri, Ship-Trap Island, Tibet, Paris, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Araby, Araby bazaar, Ireland, North Richmond Street, Oran (Algeria), America, Amsterdam (Netherlands), Europe, Galway, Hungary
People
Albert Camus (1913-1960), Brently Mallard, Josephine, Louise Mallard, Richards, Peyton Farquhar, Armand Aubigny, Désirée, General Zaroff, Ivan, La Blanche, Sandrine, Sanger Rainsford, The Great White Czar, Whitney, Madame Valmont, Caligula Emperor of Rome (12-41), Jean-Baptiste Clamence, Mangan's sister, Bartell D'Arcy, Bartleby, Cicero, Colonel Sartoris, Emily Grierson, Freddy Malins
Time
20th century, 19th century, Antebellum era, 1861-65, 1861-1865, Siglo XX, Civil War, 1861-1865, 1945-, 1830-1962, 1940s, Civil War, German occupation, 1940-1945, Revolution, 1954-1962, 1600s, 1945-1958, 1955-1965, Carnival, Revolution, 1956, Roman era, siglo XX

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