Albert Camus

Known for WritingBorn 1913-11-07Died 1960-01-04Dréan, Algeria

Albert Camus (/kæˈmuː/ kam-OO,French: [albɛʁ kamy] ; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, novelist, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, and political activist. He was the recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in history. His works include The Stranger, The Plague, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Fall and The Rebel. Camus was born in French Algeria to pied-noir parents. He spent his childhood in a poor neighbourhood and later studied philosophy at the University of Algiers. He was in Paris when the Germans invaded France during World War II in 1940. Camus tried to flee but finally joined the French Resistance where he served as editor-in-chief at Combat, an outlawed newspaper. After the war, he was a celebrity figure and gave many lectures around the world. He married twice but had many extramarital affairs. Camus was politically active; he was part of the left that opposed Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union because of their totalitarianism. Camus was a moralist and leaned towards anarcho-syndicalism. He was part of many organisations seeking European integration. During the Algerian War (1954–1962), he kept a neutral stance, advocating a multicultural and pluralistic Algeria, a position that was rejected by most parties. Philosophically, Camus's views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism. Some consider Camus's work to show him to be an existentialist, even though he himself firmly rejected the term throughout his lifetime. Description above from the Wikipedia article Albert Camus, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

The Outsider

Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

El malentendido

Maria Casarès and Albert Camus, you, my life

The Lives of Albert Camus

A Town in Fog

Der Belagerungszustand

Fate

At War for Algeria

The Stranger

Camus, l'icône de la révolte

Far from Men

Theatre 625

The Misunderstanding

Le parole a venire

The First Man

The Stranger

The Unknown

Sisyphus

Demons

The Plague

Amour de vivre

Friend of War

Under the Shrapnel

Homesick

Restless

The Wrath of a God

The Plague

Albert Camus

Soneriada

The Stranger

La cura

Cretinália

Les Justes

Sartre/Camus: A Fractured Friendship

Caligula

Gracias a La Vida

The Stranger

Jonah, or the Artist at Work

El malentendido

Calígula

The Fall

Die Besessenen

The Outsider

کالیگولا