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Albert Camus
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7 November 1913 - 4 January 1960
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France
07.11.1913 - 04.01.1960 French writer, playwright, one of the founders of French "atheistic" existentialism, Nobel Prize winner in literature. Albert Camus was born in 1913 in French Algeria. After graduating from the lyceum, Camus enters the philosophical and historical faculty of the local university. Completing his studies at the university, he writes a thesis “Christian metaphysics and Neoplatonism”. In his student years he joined the Communist Party, and in 1937 he left it. In the late
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France
07.11.1913 - 04.01.1960
French writer, playwright, one of the founders of French "atheistic" existentialism, Nobel Prize winner in literature.
Albert Camus was born in 1913 in French Algeria. After graduating from the lyceum, Camus enters the philosophical and historical faculty of the local university. Completing his studies at the university, he writes a thesis “Christian metaphysics and Neoplatonism”. In his student years he joined the Communist Party, and in 1937 he left it. In the late 30s, the first collections of his prose appear; the first novel “Happy Death” was written and postponed, work began on a philosophical essay “The Myth of Sisyphus.” In early 1938 Camus got a job as a journalist in the newspaper "Republican Algeria". Work in the newspaper ceased shortly after the outbreak of World War II. Through acquaintances, he gets a place in the capital's newspaper "Paris-Soir" and for the first time comes to Paris. The newspaper closes and Camus returns to Algeria. In February 1941 he finished the Myth of Sisyphus. In 1942, the writer returns to France, joins the underground group "Comba", runs a newspaper, where he prints "Letters to a German friend". During the war years, the story “Alien” and the essay “The Myth of Sisyphus” are published. In 1947, the novel “Plague” was published. The last and most significant philosophical work of Camus - "The Rebel Man", the last novel of the writer - "The Fall". In 1957 Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize. On January 4, 1960, Camus was killed in a car accident.