Albert Camus
Albert Camus (1913-60), French novelist, dramatist, and essayist, a leader of existentialist thought. In the 1930s he studied philosophy in Algiers and became involved with the Algerian Workers’ Theatre. During World War II he was an active member of the Resistance, editing the movement’s daily paper Combat. His works include The Outsider (1942), The Plague (1947), a vivid account of the effects of the plague in a North African town, and the play Caligula (1944). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1957 and died in a car crash three years later.
“An intellectual is a man whose mind watches itself. Albert Camus Notebooks (1935-42)
What is a rebel? A man who says no. Albert Camus, The Rebel (1953)”
