Albert Camus
- 1913-1960
Albert Camus was a 20th-century French philosopher, journalist, Nobel Prize winner, novelist, essayist, playwright, and short story writer. He was born in Algeria in 1913 and died in France in 1960 in a car accident. Albert Camus was actively involved in the French Resistance movement as a journalist during World War II. He is considered a great moralist of the post-war period. He was an uncompromising witness to his time, criticizing Soviet totalitarianism, injustice toward the people of North Africa, and defending Spanish anti-fascist refugees, victims of Stalinism, among others. Three cycles occupy the main place in his work, namely: absurdity (the novel "The Stranger", the essay "The Myth of Sisyphus", two plays "Caligula" and "The Misunderstanding"), rebellion (the novel "The Black Death", the essay "The Rebel Man", two plays "The Just Man" and "The Siege") and love (the novel "The First Man"...) - an endless cycle. In 1999, a general poll conducted by the newspaper Le Monde named Albert Camus's novel The Stranger the best novel of the 20th century. Camus's works have been translated into many languages and he has many admirers around the world.
