ALBERT CAMUS

ALBERT CAMUS

• Mondovi French Algeria
• Novelist, essayist, philosopher, play writer and french journalist
• From illiterate family
• He had tuberculosis
• He was accepted to the school of philosophy at the University of Algiers

Albert Camus (1913-1960) was a representative of non-metropolitan French literature. His origin in Algeria and his experiences there in the thirties were dominating influences in his thought and work. Of semi-proletarian parents, early attached to intellectual circles of strongly revolutionary tendencies, with a deep interest in philosophy (only chance prevented him from pursuing a university career in that field), he came to France at the age of twenty-five. The man and the times met: Camus joined the resistance movement during the occupatio

Camus left Algiers in 1940 for Paris, hoping to work as a reporter for the leftist press. This same year the German army invaded France, so he returned to North Africa. He found a teaching position in Oran, and was married for his second time to Francine Faure

During the war, Camus published a number of works which have become associated with his doctrine of the absurd: his idea it is impossible to make rational sense of one's experience, and human life is made meaningless by mortality. He writes: "This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge that it exists. There ends all my knowledge, and the rest is construction." The novel, The Stranger (1942; Eng. trans., 1946), has become the essential work of fiction of the 20th century on the theme of the alienated outsider.

L'Etranger
Albert Camus' purpose of this essay is to show, through the life of a particular man, worldly values ​​of the society of his time.

J’ai encore réfléchi un peu à ces choses, mais j’ai été distrait par une cloche qui sonnait à l’intérieur des bâtiments. Il y a eu du remue-ménage derrière les fenêtres, puis tout s’est calmé. Le soleil était monté un peu plus dans le ciel : il commençait à chauffer mes pieds. Le concierge a traversé la cour et m’a dit que le directeur me demandait. Je suis allé dans son bureau. Il m’a fait signer un certain nombre de pièces. J’ai vu qu’il était habillé de noir avec un pantalon rayé. Il a pris le téléphone en main et il m’a interpellé : « Les employés des pompes funèbres sont là depuis un moment. Je vais leur demander de venir fermer la bière. Voulez-vous auparavant voir votre mère une dernière fois ? » J’ai dit non. Il a ordonné dans le téléphone en baissant la voix : « Figeac, dites aux hommes qu’ils peuvent aller. »

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