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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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  • Cover of: Camus at Combat: writing 1944-1947

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    First published in 1996 1 edition in 1 language

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    First published in 2000 3 editions in 1 language

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  • Cover of: The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays

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  • Cover of: Perrine's literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense

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  • Cover of: Unter dem Zeichen der Freiheit: Camus-Lesebuch
    First published in 1985 2 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable

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    First published in 1971 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable

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  • Cover of: Correspondance 1944-1959

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  • Cover of: Révolte dans les Asturies: L'état de siège.  Et Richesses théâtrales Albert Camus

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    First published in 1998 1 edition in 1 language

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    First published in 1997 1 edition in 1 language

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  • Cover of: Los demonios y otras adaptaciones teatrales

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