Stephany flores ramirez biography of albert camus

Albert Camus , the French novelist and essayist, was born in Mondovi, Algeria, and was educated at the University of Algiers. From to he was active writing and producing plays for a theater group he had founded in Algiers. About the same time he began his career as a journalist, and in he moved to Paris. During the German occupation of France, Camus was active in the resistance movement, and after the liberation of Paris he became the editor of the previously clandestine newspaper Combat.

During the immediate postwar period Camus was deeply involved in political activity, and his name was for a time closely associated with that of Jean-Paul Sartre and with the existentialist movement. The latter book provoked a bitter controversy between Camus and Sartre, which ended with a severance of relations between them.

In Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. His last major work was La chute The Fall , a novel that appeared in In Camus was killed in an automobile accident. Although Camus studied philosophy for a number of years at the University of Algiers, he was not a philosopher in any technical or academic sense.

Death and Crime in the Novels of Albert Camus.

Nevertheless, virtually all his literary work was deeply influenced by philosophical ideas, and in two major essays, The Myth of Sisyphus and The Rebel , he undertook a more or less systematic exposition and defense of the moral attitudes that had in each case found expression in his novels and plays. The Myth of Sisyphus can thus be regarded as in some sense a philosophical commentary on The Stranger , and The Rebel has clear affinities with The Plague.

There can be no doubt that there are profound differences between the views set forth in these two essays. Camus's philosophical career was essentially a movement away from the nihilism of The Myth of Sisyphus toward the humanism of The Rebel. Ideas that had been present in his work from the beginning, in one form or another, were to retain their place there; but he progressively revised his views of their relative importance within the moral life.

Although Camus's name is often associated with contemporary European phenomenology and existentialism, there is no evidence that he was ever deeply influenced by, or very much interested in, the doctrines of Edmund Husserl or Martin Heidegger or even Sartre; and on occasion he expressed himself as having distinct reservations with respect to existentialism as a philosophy.