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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 · 2,010,879 ratings · 115,005 reviews · 853 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Stranger 4.03 avg rating — 1,287,005 ratings — published 1942 — 2153 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 — 295,953 ratings — published 1947 — 1363 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 — 124,821 ratings — published 1956 — 498 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 — 80,674 ratings — published 1942 — 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
	The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert Camus, Justin O'Brien (Translator) 4.22 avg rating — 62,799 ratings — published 1942 — 52 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 — 23,170 ratings — published 1971 — 3 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 — 17,771 ratings — published 1951 — 235 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 — 16,039 ratings — published 1944 — 134 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 3.84 avg rating — 14,816 ratings — published 1950 — 41 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 — 11,390 ratings — published 1994 — 7 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

Notebooks (4 books)
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Albert Camus,

خشایار دیهیمی (Translator),

شهلا خسروشاهی (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

13895 likes

“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

July 2014 Contemporary Classic -

Which book would you like to read for our July 2014 Contemporary Classic Group Read?

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

48 votes, 21.1%

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

27 votes, 11.8%

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

26 votes, 11.4%

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

18 votes, 7.9%

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

15 votes, 6.6%

The Stranger by Albert Camus

13 votes, 5.7%

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

11 votes, 4.8%

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

10 votes, 4.4%

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

8 votes, 3.5%

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

8 votes, 3.5%

Hiroshima by John Hersey

7 votes, 3.1%

Orlando by Virginia Woolf

6 votes, 2.6%

Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner

6 votes, 2.6%

On the Beach by Nevil Shute

5 votes, 2.2%

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

5 votes, 2.2%

The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

4 votes, 1.8%

Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello

4 votes, 1.8%

Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor

3 votes, 1.3%

Berlin Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf by Alfred Döblin

3 votes, 1.3%

Mister Roberts by Thomas Heggen

1 vote, 0.4%

Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh

0 votes, 0.0%

228 total votes

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