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Camus

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Ca·mus  (kä-m, -mü), Albert 1913-1960.
French writer and philosopher whose works, such as The Stranger (1942) and The Plague (1947), concern the absurdity of the human condition. He won the 1957 Nobel Prize for literature.
Camus (French) [kamy]
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(Biographies / Camus, Albert (1913-1960) M, French, WRITING: novelist, THEATRE: dramatist, WRITING: essayist) Albert (albɛr). 1913-60, French novelist, dramatist, and essayist, noted for his pessimistic portrayal of man's condition of isolation in an absurd world: author of the novels L'Étranger (1942) and La Peste (1947), the plays Le Malentendu (1945) and Caligula (1946), and the essays Le Mythe de Sisyphe (1942) and L'Homme révolté (1951): Nobel prize for literature 1957.
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Noun1.Camus - French writer who portrayed the human condition as isolated in an absurd world (1913-1960)
Albert Camus


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This lady was the daughter of Nicholas de Camus, who arrived in Paris with twenty francs in his pocket, became secretary of state, and accumulated wealth enough to divide nine millions of francs among his children and to keep an income of forty thousand for himself.
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