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Albert Camus

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Noun1.Albert Camus - French writer who portrayed the human condition as isolated in an absurd world (1913-1960)


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Albert Camus, who wrote, "There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide," offered as an answer to our tragic or absurd condition a "humiliated" thought that renounces religious and utopian consolations but can still inspire an intensely engaged life devoted to art and political resistance to unjust power.
Rieux, the hero of Albert Camus (9) in "La Peste," aimed to relate the events of the plague outbreak in Oran in the 1940s with the highest objectivity.
He occasionally gave a public lecture on a man of letters--such as Albert Camus, or the Hebrew brilliant publicist of the early century, Ahad Ha'am.
 
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