Camus, Albert (Vol. 1) - Camus, Albert 1913–1960
Camus, Albert 1913–1960
Camus, a French existentialist philosopher, novelist, and playwright, is remembered especially for The Stranger, The Myth of Sisyphus, and The Rebel. He won the Nobel Prize in 1957.
It was, of course, Camus who first spotted the significance of [the] new style of nihilism and identified it, in The Stranger, with the pathological apathy of the narrator Meursault—the French were far in advance of the Americans in seeing that the "rebel" was giving way in our day to the "stranger." In … [the] collection of stories called Exile and the Kingdom, Camus [continued] to deal with the predicament of men and women moving dully through an indifferent universe (he is very much a man in quest of solutions, and not at all content with mere diagnosis), but my impression is that he … lost the firm grasp he had on the problem in his earlier work. The decline set in with his … novel, The Fall, a book...
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