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Albert Camus

Born

in Mondovi, French Algeria

November 07, 1913

Died

January 04, 1960

Genre

Fiction, Philosophy

Influences

Friedrich Nietzsche, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Edmund Husserl, H ...more

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Works, such as the novels The Stranger (1942) and The Plague (1947), of Algerian-born French writer and philosopher Albert Camus concern the absurdity of the human condition; he won the Nobel Prize of 1957 for literature.

Origin and his experiences of this representative of non-metropolitan literature in the 1930s dominated influences in his thought and work.

He also adapted plays of Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Lope de Vega, Dino Buzzati, and Requiem for a Nun of William Faulkner. One may trace his enjoyment of the theater back to his membership in l'Equipe, an Algerian group, whose "collective creation" Révolte dans les Asturies (1934) was banned for political reasons.

Of semi-proletarian parents, early attached to intellectu ...more

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Albert Camus’s books

Average rating: 4.03 · 1,723,726 ratings · 88,963 reviews · 792 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Stranger 4.02 avg rating — 1,097,912 ratings — published 1942 — 1941 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Plague 4.02 avg rating — 264,368 ratings — published 1947 — 1295 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fall 4.04 avg rating — 106,855 ratings — published 1956 — 459 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Myth of Sisyphus 4.18 avg rating — 60,446 ratings — published 1942 — 374 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert Camus, Justin O'Brien (Translator) 4.22 avg rating — 57,546 ratings — published 1942 — 48 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Happy Death by Albert Camus, Richard Howard (Translator), Jean Sarocchi (Afterword & Notes) 3.81 avg rating — 18,901 ratings — published 1971 — 152 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rebel 4.14 avg rating — 16,018 ratings — published 1951 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Caligula 4.10 avg rating — 13,951 ratings — published 1944 — 130 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Exile and the Kingdom 3.86 avg rating — 13,297 ratings — published 1950 — 198 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The First Man 3.97 avg rating — 9,916 ratings — published 1994 — 186 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Albert Camus,

Ryan Bloom (Goodreads Author) (Translator)

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Quotes by Albert Camus (?)

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus

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“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, happiness, meaning-of-life

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“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus

tags: seasons, strength, trial, triumph

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Polls

August 2020 New School Group Read Poll

2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke, 1968, 297 pages

83 votes, 24.9%

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, 1997, 340 pages

73 votes, 21.9%

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert Camus, 1942, 212 pages

49 votes, 14.7%

The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie, 1988, 561 pages

46 votes, 13.8%

Native Son by Richard Wright, 1940, 504 pages

37 votes, 11.1%

A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley, 1991, 371 pages

27 votes, 8.1%

Independent People by Halldór Laxness, 1934, 482 pages

18 votes, 5.4%

333 total votes

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