Albert Camus

French-Algerian · 1913–1960

French-Algerian novelist, essayist, and philosopher most closely associated with the philosophy of the absurd — the confrontation between humanity's search for meaning and a universe that supplies none. His best-known works include the novels The Stranger and The Fall, and the philosophical essay The Myth of Sisyphus, which famously opens with the claim that the only serious philosophical question is whether to commit suicide. Camus rejected the existentialist label associated with Sartre, with whom he eventually broke. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957 and died three years later in a car accident.

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