Albert Camus (Critical Survey of Drama, Second Revised Edition)

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Considered by many to have been the outstanding figure in his generation of French letters (rivaled only by his sometime friend and colleague Jean-Paul Sartre), Albert Camus is best remembered as the author of thought-provoking essays, such as Le Mythe de Sisyphe (1942; The Myth of Sisyphus, 1955) and L’Homme révolté (1951; The Rebel, 1956), and novels such as L’Étranger (1942; The Stranger, 1946), La Peste (1947;...

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