Albert Camus!

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Albert Camus!

• By Nishit Arora
• Period 0
• Mrs. Jauch

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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.

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Continued

• He joined the French Communist Party in 1935
• He joined the activities in of the Algerian
  Peoples 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 and the Hungarian Revolution.

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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.

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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

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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 the 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

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Novels
Non Fiction Books

• The Stranger
• The Plague
• The Fall
• A Happy Death
• The First Man

• The Myth of Sisyphus
• The Rebel
• Betwixt and Between

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Plays
Essays

• Caligula
• The Misunderstanding
• The Just Assassins
• The Possessed

• Create Dangerously
• The Ancient Greek Tragedy
• The Crisis of Man
• Why Spain?
• Neither Victims Nor Executioners

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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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Thanks For Listening!