Camus, Albert | Camus as Studied
Camus as Studied
- CAMUS AS STUDIED BEFORE 1980
- CAMUS AS STUDIED AFTER 1980
- OTHER AUTHORS FREQUENTLY STUDIED WITH CAMUS
- NOTES
CAMUS AS STUDIED BEFORE 1980
Camus’s international image and worldwide fame spring chiefly, it would appear, from two sources. One is found in Camus the man, as documented by contemporary witnesses and photographs and made known in the facts of his biography, especially his ironic death in an automobile wreck, by which he seemed to be both prince and victim of the absurd that he made central to his early works. The early, needless death of a figure with such great literary talent and thirst for life seems to illustrate the meaninglessness of human life in a century that began under the shadow of Friedrich Nietzsche’s nihilism and went on to include the extermination, through wars and political...
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