Danko-Camus

= = =Albert Camus= (1913-1960)

Biography

 * Born to a poor family in French Algeria
 * Studied at the University of Algiers
 * Joined the French Communist Party as a way of fighting for the native Algerian people, but was later denounced as a Trotskyite
 * Later became a well known anarchist
 * Reported for and edited the French newspaper //Combat// during World War II and openly condemned the use of nuclear weapons against Japan
 * Became a staunch advocate for human rights and pacifism

Literary Career

 * Influenced by Jean Paul-Satre, Soren Kierkegaard, Franz Kafka, and Friedrich Nietzsche
 * His 1951 novel, //The Rebel//, expressed his major qualms with the ideals of Communism
 * He expressed his main philosophy of Absurdism in //The Myth of Sisyphus, The Stranger and The Plague.//
 * Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his essay //Réflexions sur la Guillotine,// in which he discussed his opposition towards capital punishment


 * //The Stranger,// 1942
 * //The Myth of Sisyphus,// 1942
 * //The Plague,// 1947
 * //The Rebel,// 1951
 * //The Fall,// 1956
 * //Reflections on the Guillotine,// 1957