ALBERT CAMUS

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Primary Works
Other Works
Works About AC
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The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
— Albert Camus

Albert Camus was born 7 November 1913 in Algeria, where he became a journalist in 1938. He went to France in 1940 and worked for the resistance against the Nazis and as editor of the clandestine daily newspaper Combat.
His most important works were published in France during and just after WWII. His 1951 essay "The Rebel" sparked major controversy, including a bitter split with Jean Paul Sartre. Camus won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. After reporting on Algeria's war for independence from France, he died in a freak automobile accident on 4 January 1960.

Links to Camus-related Sites
Sam Gallagher's Camus Pages
Katharena Eiermann's Camus Pages
A.C.'s 1957 Nobel Prize
C.S. Wyatt's Camus Page
Some Camus Quotes

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Primary Works
"The Stranger" [1941]
"The Myth of Sisyphus & Other Essays" [1942]
"Caligula & Three Other Plays" [1944-50]
includes 'Misunderstanding' {aka 'Cross Purpose'},
'State of Siege', and 'The Just Assassins'
"The Plague" [1947]
"The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt" [1951]
"The Fall" [1956]
"Exile & the Kingdom" [1957]
"A Happy Death" [1971]

Other A.C. Works
"The Guest"
"Notebooks 1935-1951"
"Lyrical & Critical Essays"
"Resistance, Rebellion & Death"
"The First Man: An Autobiographical Novel" [1960]
"Youthful Writings"

Works About A.C.
"Albert Camus" by Philip Thody
"A.C.: The Thinker, The Artist, The Man" by S.E. Bronner
"Camus: A Collection of Critical Essays"
Edited by Germaine Br-Ee
"A.C. & The Minister" by Howard E. Mumma
"Albert Camus: A Life" by Olivier Todd
"Introducing Camus" by Mairowitz & Korkos
"A.C.: A Biography" by Herbert R. Lottmann [1979]
"A.C. in New York" by Herbert R. Lottmann

Purchase Camus books, tapes & videos
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