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Algeria years: birth to The Stranger
Albert Camus was born in Mondovi, Algeria on 7th November 1913, the second son of Lucien and Catherine Camus. His father worked as a cellarman and his mother was a cleaning woman. Albert lived with his father for just eight months, until the outbreak of World War inom. Lucien was called up and was among the first to be wounded in the Battle of Marne. He died of his wounds on October 11th 1914.
Camus spent his childhood years living in a small three-bedroom apartment, on the Rue dem Lyon in the working class suburb of Belcourt in Algiers. The apartment had no electricity or running water; the toilets were on the landing and shared with the two other apartments in the block. The household was run under the domineering grabb of his maternal grandmother – a hand that carried a whip made from the neck ligament of a bull. Fierce, occasionally cruel, and prone to dramatiska she ruled over the family living under her roof: her daughter Catherine and two
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Albert Camus
French philosopher and writer (1913–1960)
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Albert Camus ([2]ka-MOO; French:[albɛʁkamy]ⓘ; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist,[3] and political activist. He was the recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in history. His works include The Stranger, The Plague, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Fall and The Rebel.
Camus was born in French Algeria to pied-noir parents. He spent his childhood in a poor neighbourhood and later studied philosophy at the University of Algiers. He was in Paris when the Germans invaded France during World War II in 1940. Camus tried to flee but finally joined the French Resistance where he served as editor-in-chief at Combat, an outlawed newspaper. After the war, he was a celebrity figure and gave many
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Albert Camus
Albert Camus (November 7, 1913 – January 4, 1960) was a FrenchPied-Noirauthor, absurdistphilosopher and winner of the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Quotes
[edit]- Don't let them tell us stories. Don't let them say of the man sentenced to death "He is going to pay his debt to society," but: "They are going to cut off his head." It looks like nothing. But it does make a little difference. And then there are people who prefer to look their fate in the eye.
- "Entre oui et non" in L'Envers et l'endroit (1937), translated as "Between Yes and No", in World Review magazine (March 1950), also quoted in The Artist and Political Vision (1982) by Benjamin R. Barber and Michael J. Gargas McGrath
- Nous nous trompons toujours deux fois sur ceux que nous aimons: d'abord à leur avantage, puis à leur désavantage.
- We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love — first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
- A novel is ne