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Camus, Albert - älbĕrˈ kämüˈ, 1913–60, French writer, b. Algiers. Camus was one of the most important authors and thinkers of the 20th cent. While a student at the Univ. of Algiers, he formed a theater group and adapted, directed, and acted in plays. He became active in social reform and was briefly a member of the Communist party. Shortly after his essay Noces [weddings] appeared (1939), he went to Paris as a journalist. In World War II he joined the French resistance and was principal editor of the underground paper Combat.

Noted for his vigorous, concise, and lucid style, Camus soon gained recognition as a major literary figure. His belief that man's condition is absurd identified him with the existentialists (see existentialism), but he denied allegiance to that group; his works express rather a courageous humanism. The characters in his novels and plays, although keenly aware of the meaninglessness of the human condition, assert their humanity by rebelling against their circumstances.

His essay Le Mythe de Sisyphe (1942, tr. The Myth of Sisyphus, 1955) formulates his theory of the absurd and is the philosophical basis of his novel L'Étranger (1942, tr. The Stranger, 1946) and of his plays Le Malentendu (1944, tr. Cross Purpose, 1948) and Caligula (1944, tr. 1948). The essay L'Homme révolté (1951, tr. The Rebel, 1954), dealing with historical, spiritual, and political rebellion, treats themes found in the novels La Peste (1947, tr. The Plague, 1948) and La Chute (1956, tr. The Fall, 1957). Other works include the plays L'État de siège (1948, tr. State of Siege, 1958); and Les Justes (1950, tr. The Just Assassins, 1958); journalistic essays; and stories. Camus was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature. The first draft of an autobiographical novel, found in a briefcase after his death in a car crash, was published as Le Premier Homme (1994, tr. The First Man, 1995).

See his Notebooks, ed. by P. Thody (2 vol., 1963, 1965); biography by O. Todd (1997); studies by G. Brée (4th ed. 1972), D. Lazere (1973), L. Braun (1974), P. McCarthy (1982), and D. Sprintzen (1988).

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The Stranger » Read Now
by Albert Camus, Stuart Gilbert. 156 pgs.

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...THE STRANGER THE STRANGER By ALBERT CAMUS Translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert...Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Camus, Albert, 1913-1960 The stranger. I...
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Camus: A Critical Examination (Chap. 3 "The Stranger") » Read Now
by David Sprintzen. 310 pgs.

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...Dramatic Contours 21 3 The Stranger 23 4 The Myth...have such a mythic resonance: The Stranger , The Plague , The Misunderstanding...recits, nouvelles, or romans: The...
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Classic Cult Fiction: A Companion to Popular Cult Literature (Discussion of The Stranger begins on p. 237) » Read Now
by Thomas Reed Whissen. 324 pgs.

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Classic Cult Fiction is a history, analysis, and reference guide to books that have become "bibles" to generations of Europeans and Americans over the past 200 years--books like The Catcher in the Rye. Fearlessly taking on "canon formation," Whissen identifies the top 50 classic cult books, first...
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Classic Cult Fiction is a history, analysis, and reference guide to books that have become "bibles" to generations of Europeans and Americans over the past 200 years--books like The Catcher in the Rye. Fearlessly taking on "canon formation," Whissen identifies the top 50 classic cult books, first presenting an informed and witty interpretation of the phenomenon and its characteristics with examples from different cultures and periods. The individual works are each discussed relative to time and place, impact, and audience psychology and analyzed in terms of common cult attributes. A chronological listing of cult fiction adds a number of titles not chosen for the top 50.
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Meursault the Straw Man, in Studies in the Novel » Read Now
by Robert R. Brock. 9 pgs.

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...concludes by citing Alain Robbe-Grillets comment, "I am the stranger." (Letranger, cest moi.) Stoltzfus then comes to the...leurs lectures (Paris: Larousse. 1979) (4)...
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The Birth of the Subject in Camus' 'L'Etranger,' in The Romanic Review » Read Now
by Gilbert D. Chaitin. 18 pgs.

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...McCarthy, Patrick. Albert Camus: "The Stranger." Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Ohayon, Stephen. "Camus The Stranger; The Sun-Metaphor and Patricidal...68-97...
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The Dynamics of the Absurd in the Existentialist Novel (Chap. IV "The Stranger; The Myth of Sisyphus") » Read Now
by Richard E. Baker. 141 pgs.

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Meaning and Being in Myth (Chap. 7 "The Empirical Stranger") » Read Now
by Norman Austin. 239 pgs.

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Eloquent Obsessions: Writing Cultural Criticism ("The American Stranger" begins on p. 5) » Read Now
by Marianna Torgovnick. 300 pgs.

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...nothing / Im alive. Im dead. Im the Stranger. Killing an Arab." 6 For American...murder of an Arab on a sunny day, the Stranger says: "I think that I slept because...by...
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Closure and Anticlosure in Camus's L'Etranger: Some Ideological Considerations, in Symposium » Read Now
by Jack Murray. 16 pgs.

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...his nature an intruder or stranger in the world represented in the...Girard, Rene. "Camuss Stranger Retried." Publications of the Modem Language Association...Patrick...
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Confession and Desire in L'Etranger, in Symposium » Read Now
by Gilbert D. Chaitin. 13 pgs.

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...lecture intertextuelle de LEtranger ." Albert Camus 10 ( 1982 ): 29-52. McCarthy, Patrick. Albert Camus: "The Stranger." Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1988 . Noyer-Weidner...
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The Thought and Art of Albert Camus ("The Stranger: A Novel" begins on p. 35) » Read Now
by Thomas B. Hanna. 204 pgs.

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...pieces to the paper. His novel, The Stranger , had appeared in 1942, although...this earlier period: the novel, The Stranger and the two plays, The...
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Camus's The Stranger, in Explicator » Read Now
by Kathryn B. McGuire. 4 pgs.

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...Camuss THE STRANGER The funeral vigil in Camus The Stranger subtly illustrates a primary, though paradoxical, existential...Giroux, 1974 ) 21. 2. Quotations from The...
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Camus's The Stranger, in Explicator » Read Now
by Alice J. Strange. 3 pgs.

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...Camuss THE STRANGER Readers of Albert Camuss novel The Stranger consider the character of the narrator...To the reader, Meursault status as the stranger springs from his...