![]() ![]() ![]() He died in an automobile accident at the age of 46. Because of his formidable impact on the world of letters in the second half of the twentieth century, he was awarded the prestigious bel Prize in 1957 for illuminating “the problems of the human conscience.†He was only 44 years old at the time. His philosophical books The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), and The Rebel (1951) proved him to be a forceful thinker. He also became active in the resistance against the colonial French government and served as editor-in-chief of the newspaper Combat from 1944 to 1947.Ĭamus established himself as a fiction writer with his three novels: The Stranger (1942), The Plague (1947), and The Fall (1956). Although not trained as a philosopher, he contributed towards the avant-garde twentieth-century philosophical ideas of Absurdism in the form of essays, novels, reviews and articles. share textAlbert Camus Plague, Fall, Exile And The Kingdom And. He was born in Mondovi, French Algeria on vember 7, 1913. After The Outsider (also published in Everyman) The Plague is his most powerful. ![]() Justin O’BrienAlbert Camus was a French-Algerian writer, philosopher and journalist. ![]()
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