Camus, Albert | Camus’s Era
Camus’s Era
- THE ALGERIAN BACKGROUND
- THE 1930s
- WORLD WAR II AND THE OCCUPATION
- THE POSTLIBERATION AND POSTWAR PERIOD
- EXISTENTIALISM AND EXISTENTIAL WRITING
- THE 1950s AND THE ALGERIAN WAR
- NOTES
THE ALGERIAN BACKGROUND
Camus was born into the world of the French Empire. This was one of the principal historical facts affecting and impinging upon his life. Less extensive than the British Empire, and less familiar now to students in North America, it was nevertheless considerable. The French crown had lost New France (Canada) to Great Britain before the French Revolution and was defeated in the same period in a struggle with the British to retain those portions of India, including Pondicherry, over which France had held sway. Still, in 1913 the French nation...
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