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Albert Camus

Also known as Camus

French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)

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Albert Camus was a French writer, philosopher, novelist, and journalist. He was born in Dréan on 7 November 1913 and died in Villeblevin on 4 January 1960 due to accidental death. Camus held French citizenship and spoke French as his native language. He worked in Paris and was employed by L'Express, Alger républicain, Combat, and Paris-Soir.

He received the Nobel Prize in Literature and was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His notable works include L'homme révolté, A Happy Death, The Fall, and The Myth of Sisyphus. Camus was married to Francine Faure.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 7 November 1913
Died: 4 January 1960
Works: 491

Top works

転落 ; 追放と王国
Ḳaligulah
Requiem pour une nonne
Repères
Les justes

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Film & TV

Writing · Dréan, Algeria

Albert Camus (/kæˈmuː/ kam-OO,French: [albɛʁ kamy] ; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, novelist, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, 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…

Known for

Maria Casarès and Albert Camus, you, my life — Self (archive footage)2022
At War for Algeria — Self - Writer (archive footage)2022
Cretinália — Self (archive footage)2020
The Lives of Albert Camus — Self (archive footage)2020
Camus, l'icône de la révolte — Self (archive footage)2020
Sartre/Camus: A Fractured Friendship — Self (archive footage)2014
Amour de vivre — Self (archive footage)2010
Albert Camus — Self (archive footage)1974

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: France
Active from: 1913
Active to: 1960

albert calmushas german audio playshas german audiobooks

Discography

Leben heißt Handeln: Begegnungen mit Albert Camus2013

Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 3,722
Total plays: 65,971

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 66,856x
G*Power 3: A flexible statistical power analysis program for the social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences
· 2007 · cited 54,738x
Self-efficacy: Toward a unifying theory of behavioral change.
· 1977 · cited 50,589x
Statistical power analyses using G*Power 3.1: Tests for correlation and regression analyses
· 2009 · cited 31,460x
Emergence of Scaling in Random Networks
· 1999 · cited 28,091x

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Quotes

“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.”
“Nous nous trompons toujours deux fois sur ceux que nous aimons: d'abord à leur avantage, puis à leur désavantage.”
“Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. And if you don't help us, who else in the world can help us do this?”
“We have exiled beauty; the Greeks took up arms for her.”
“We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink.”
“Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard. It steels itself to attain the absolute and authority; it wants to transfigure the world before having exhausted it, to set it to rights before having understood it. Whatever it may say, our era is deserting this world.”

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Literature1957
“for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times”

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Works in European collections

4 objects attributed to Albert Camus, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Regény

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Encyclopedic overview

Albert Camus (/kæˈmuː/ kam-OO; French: [albɛʁ kamy] ; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, novelist, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, 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, and the first laureate in literature born in Africa. 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 lectures around the world. He married twice but had many extramarital affairs. Camus was politically active; he was part of the left that opposed Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union because of their totalitarianism. Camus was a moralist and leaned towards anarcho-syndicalism. He was part of many organisations seeking European integration. During the Algerian War (1954–1962), he kept a neutral stance, advocating a multicultural and pluralistic Algeria, a position that was rejected by most parties.

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