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Albert Camus

Author / Philosopher · French-Algerian · 20th c.

French-Algerian author and philosopher (1913–1960). In The Stranger and The Plague he depicted humanity placed within the absurd; in The Myth of Sisyphus he developed a philosophy of the absurd. His intellectual feud with Sartre over the ethics of revolutionary violence defined a generation's political choices. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957. Dying in a car accident at 46, he left behind a body of work of concentrated moral urgency.