Albert Camus
Albert Camus was a French writer and philosopher associated with existentialism and absurdism, though he rejected both labels.
His novels *The Stranger* and *The Plague* and his essay *The Myth of Sisyphus* explore meaning, mortality, and rebellion against life's absurdity.
He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957 and died in a car accident three years later at forty-six.
Condemned eternal boulder roller
- meaninglessnessLack of significance
- revoltOrganized resistance to power
- acceptanceConsent to receive
- lucidityClearness of mind
rebellion · happiness · struggle · boulder · futility · paradox · confrontation · defiance
Unknown arriving person
Writer of prose narratives
- essayistAuthor of short prose
- playwrightAuthor of stage dramas
- journalistNews profession practitioner
- dramatistWriter of stage works
moralist · editorialist · columnist · literary critic · French writer · public intellectual
State of being isolated
- authenticityQuality of being genuine
- freedomAbsence of constraint
- choiceAct of selecting
- responsibilityState of being answerable
anguish · existence · individualism · Sartre · phenomenology · lived experience · bad faith · commitment
Study of right conduct
- moralityRight and wrong principles
- revoltOrganized resistance to power
- limitsImposed maximum points
- moderationAvoidance of excess
justice · solidarity · anti-totalitarianism · humanism · political philosophy · means and ends · human dignity · fraternity
Mid-century cold war year
- StockholmSweden's seat of government
- laureateCelebrated achievement recipient
- prizeReward for winning
- ceremonyFormal event marking occasions
medal · recognition · achievement · distinction · acceptance speech · banquet · prestige · honor
Sisyphus
Condemned eternal boulder roller
- meaninglessnessLack of significance
- revoltOrganized resistance to power
- acceptanceConsent to receive
lucidity · rebellion · happiness · struggle · boulder · futility · paradox · confrontation · defiance · creation
The Stranger
Unknown arriving person
novelist
Writer of prose narratives
- essayistAuthor of short prose
- playwrightAuthor of stage dramas
- journalistNews profession practitioner
dramatist · moralist · editorialist · columnist · literary critic · French writer · public intellectual
alienation
State of being isolated
- authenticityQuality of being genuine
- freedomAbsence of constraint
- choiceAct of selecting
responsibility · anguish · existence · individualism · Sartre · phenomenology · lived experience · bad faith · commitment · engagement
ethics
Study of right conduct
moderation · justice · solidarity · anti-totalitarianism · humanism · political philosophy · means and ends · human dignity · fraternity · compassion
1957
Mid-century cold war year
ceremony · medal · recognition · achievement · distinction · acceptance speech · banquet · prestige · honor · award
- EssayistsFrancis Bacon, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Thoreau
- French AuthorsVictor Hugo, Jules Verne, Voltaire, Jean-Paul Sartre, Marcel Proust
- modern French authors CColette
- AuthorsShakespeare, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Literary AuthorsC.S. Lewis, Dostoevsky, J.R.R. Tolkien, Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde
- French LiteratureVictor Hugo, Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Dumas, Jules Verne
Albert CamusThomas Aquinas
Scholastic philosopher-theologian
C.S. Lewis · G.K. Chesterton · Billy Graham · Blaise Pascal · Pope John Paul II
Albert CamusAyn Rand
Objectivist movement founder
Marcel Proust · James Joyce · Victor Hugo · William Faulkner · Danielle Steel