Books by "Albert Camus"

Albert Camus (1913-1960) was a French author and journalist who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1957. He was born to impoverished parents in Mondovi Algeria. Within just a year of his birth, his father was killed in the first battle of the Marne. His mother then moved along with him to the Belcourt district in Algiers where he started his primary schooling.

Camus was a strong proponent of the philosophy of existentialism and a personal antagonist of the philosophy of nihilism, while deeply exploring freedom on an individual level. Camus received his diploma in philosophy from the University of Algiers in 1936 and shortly afterwards, he wrote his first book in 1937 entitled L'ENVERS ET L'ENDROIT. He was also an active theatre activist during this period.

Albert Camus came to France at the age of 25 in 1938. During this time, he worked for a newspaper Alger-Republicain, and also for the Paris-Soir. Having divorced his first wife Simone Hié, he married again, this time to Francine Faure, who was a pianist as well as a mathematician. His years during the Second World War were as a member of the French Resistance. He co-founded the leftwing resistance newspaper Combat as an editor. In 1942, his second novel entitled 'L'ETRANGER (The Stranger)', was published, which he had begun during his years in Algeria in the pre war days.

The year 1947 saw Camus retiring from active political journalism, and was very active in theatre production as well as a playright. Albert Camus was in love with theatre since his early days with the Algerian theatre group l'Equipe. He is associated with several popular works like The Stranger (1946), The Plague (1948), The Rebel (1954), and The Myth of Sisyphus (1955).

He has also written many plays like Caligula which was written in 1938, but performed in 1945, and Cross Purpose (1944). He also wrote two other original plays State of Siege (1948) and The Just Assassins (1949). His later works consisted of adaptations and translations for stage such as Faulkner’s Requiem for a Nun (1956) and Dostoevsky's The Possessed (1959). Unfortunately, on January 4, 1960, Albert Camus was killed in a car accident while returning to Paris with his friend Michel Gallimard. He was just 46 years old.