Œuvres complètes (Tome 1-1931-1944)

by Albert Camus

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Albert Camus
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Born in 1913 in Algeria, Albert Camus was a French novelist, dramatist, and essayist. He was deeply affected by the plight of the French during the Nazi occupation of World War II, who were subject to the military's arbitrary whims. He explored the existential human condition in such works as L'Etranger (The Outsider, 1942) and Le Mythe de Sisyphe show more (The Myth of Sisyphus, 1942), which propagated the philosophical notion of the "absurd" that was being given dramatic expression by other Theatre of the Absurd dramatists of the 1950s and 1960s. Camus also wrote a number of plays, including Caligula (1944). Much of his work was translated into English. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. Camus died in an automobile accident in 1960. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Canonical title*
Carnets. Tome 1 : Mars 1935 - février 1942
Original title
Carnets. Tome 1 : Mars 1935 - février 1942
Original publication date
2006-04-21 (1e édition originale française ∙ Bibliothèque de la Pléiade ∙ Gallimard) (1e édition originale française ∙ Bibliothèque de la Pléiade ∙ Gallimard)
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Albert Camus
First words
May 1935:
What I mean in this: that one can, with no romanticism, feel nostalgic for lost poverty.
Last words
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Cf. Marcus Aurelius: "Wherever it is possible to live, it is possible to live well."
"What prevents a work from being completed becomes the work itself."
What bars our way makes us travel along it.
[Ended February 1942]
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848.91403 — Literature & rhetoric French Literature French miscellaneous writings 1900- 1900-1999 1945-1999 Diaries, journals, notebooks, reminiscences
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PQ2605 .A3734 .C3718 — Language and Literature French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literatures French literature Modern literature 1900-1960
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