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23 hours ago · Albert Camus (1913-1960) was a French-Algerian philosopher, author of The Stranger, and a leading thinker of the group associated with the philosophical movement existentialism (though Camus ...
3 days ago · The Myth of Sisyphus, philosophical essay by Albert Camus, published in French in 1942 as Le Mythe de Sisyphe. Published in the same year as Camus’s novel L’Étranger ( The Stranger ), The Myth of Sisyphus contains a sympathetic analysis of contemporary nihilism and touches on the nature of the absurd.
2 days ago · Abstract. The COVID-19 pandemic inaugurated a resurgence of interest in Albert Camus’ 1947 novel The Plague. Recent commentaries on the work have emphasized its themes of human nature, decency, and solidarity. However, hasty readings of the novel often trade in simplifications and misunderstandings that conceal or misconstrue the novel’s ...
4 days ago · Albert Camus was an Algerian-born French writer, journalist, and philosopher, whose works have contributed to the rise of the philosophical theory of Absurdism. Camus is often regarded as one of the most influential writers and philosophers of the 20th century.
1 day ago · Gone are the willful attempts to render heroic what Camus left plain and unadorned. Instead we read Camus as Camus intended: restrained and matter-of-fact at times, and yet interspersed with a searing lyricism that makes the heart ache. Bravo Laura 🫡
5 days ago · Daru, the protagonist in "The Guest" by Albert Camus, is a schoolteacher in a remote Algerian village. He is depicted as compassionate and morally conflicted, caught between his sense of...
1 day ago · This evocative description of emotional apathy in blazing heat comes from Albert Camus' novel The Stranger (L'Étranger). First published in 1942, the novel follows the protagonist, ...
