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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 · 1,727,491 ratings · 89,337 reviews · 797 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Stranger 4.02 avg rating — 1,100,338 ratings — published 1942 — 1912 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 — 264,797 ratings — published 1947 — 232 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 — 107,113 ratings — published 1956 — 456 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 — 60,713 ratings — published 1942 — 372 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 — 57,623 ratings — published 1942 — 47 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 — 18,948 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 — 16,044 ratings — published 1951 — 217 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 — 13,977 ratings — published 1944 — 129 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 — 13,314 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 — 9,941 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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Series by Albert Camus

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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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August 2019 Revisit the Shelf Poll

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith published 1943, 496 pages

63 votes, 20.9%

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez published in 1967, 417 pages

58 votes, 19.3%

Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier published 1935, 320 pages.

53 votes, 17.6%

Dune by Frank Herbert published 1965, 604 pages

48 votes, 15.9%

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner published 1929; 326 pages

42 votes, 14.0%

The Plague by Albert Camus published 1947, 308 pages

37 votes, 12.3%

301 total votes

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