Albert Camus By Nishit Arora Period 0 Mrs

Albert Camus! By: Nishit Arora Period 0 Mrs. Jauch

Early Life • Born in November 7, 1913 in French Algeria (colonized by France in 1830) • Mother was half-deaf and his father died in WWI in the Battle of Marne • Admitted in the University of Algiers (1923) • Had tuberculosis which then ended his football career (soccer) so to earn money, he worked in the weather bureau, in an automobile-accessory firm (ships), and was also a private tutor.

Continued • He joined the French Communist Party in 1935 • He joined the activities in of the Algerian People’s Party which got him denounced from the FCP • Went on to become associated with the anarchist movement • He wrote for anarchist publications (Le Libertaire) • He supported the uprising in East Germany in 1953. Also, supported the workers’ uprising in Poznan, Poland the Hungarian Revolution.

His Marriage Life and Belief • In 1934, he married Simone Hie but ended quickly • In 1940, he then married Francine Faure, a pianist and mathematician. They had twins named Catherine and Jean. • He did love her but was against the institution of marriage and saying that it is unnatural. • He had affairs with her which included with Maria Casares.

Others • He founded the Revolutionary Union Movement- group opposed the Surrealist Movement of Andre Breton. • His main aim was to express the positive side of surrealism and existentialism. • Also founded the European Federalist Movement but was dissolved the next year in 1945

Works/Plays • His report on the unhappy state of the Muslims of the Kabylie region aroused the Algerian government to action and brought him public notice. Also about the poor in that region and the bad living conditions they faced. • He ran the Théâtre de l'Equipe, a company that produced plays by Malraux, Gide, Synge, Dostoevski, and other. • During WWII, one of the leading writers of the French Resistance and editor of Combat. • He was very active in theater and some of his plays were published/produced. • Expressed his opposition of the US bombing in Hiroshima in public • His work was dualist: happiness and sadness, light and dark, etc. • Also talked about “the absurd”- refers to the conflict between the human tendency to seek value and meaning in life and the human inability to find any

Novels • • • The Stranger The Plague The Fall A Happy Death The First Man Non Fiction Books • The Myth of Sisyphus • The Rebel • Betwixt and Between

Plays • • Caligula The Misunderstanding The Just Assassins The Possessed Essays • Create Dangerously • The Ancient Greek Tragedy • The Crisis of Man • Why Spain? • Neither Victims Nor Executioners

Death! • Died January 4 1960 • It was a car accident near Sens • Buried in the Lourmarin Cemetery BUT…. Nobel Prize in Literature

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