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The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions. - Albert Camus Attribution: Albert Camus (1913–1960), French-Algerian philosopher, author. “State Terrorism and Rational Terror,” pt. 3, The Rebel (1951, trans. 1953).

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Albert Camus

Titles by Albert Camus:

• The Fall
• The Guest
• The Plague
• The Stranger

eNotes:

• Albert Camus' Concept of the Absurd and Juan José Arreola's "The Switchman" (The Switchman)
• Albert Camus (The Guest)
• Exile from the Kingdom: A Political Rereading of Albert Camus (The Guest)
• Albert Camus’s ‘The Guest’: A New Look at the Prisoner (The Guest)
• Albert Camus (The Plague)
• Albert Camus (The Stranger)

Salem on History:

• Albert Camus
• Albert Camus

Encyclopedia:

• Camus, Albert (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)

Salem on Literature:

• Albert Camus (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
• Albert Camus (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
• Albert Camus (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
• Albert Camus (World Philosophers and Their Works)
• Albert Camus (Ethics (Ready Reference series))
• Albert Camus (Cyclopedia of World Authors)

Literary Criticism:

• The Guest, Albert Camus (Short Story Criticism)
• Camus, Albert (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Camus, Albert (Vol. 32) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Camus, Albert (Vol. 9) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Camus, Albert (Vol. 2) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Camus, Albert (Vol. 14) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Camus, Albert (Vol. 124) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Camus, Albert (Vol. 1) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Camus, Albert (Vol. 4) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Camus, Albert (Vol. 11) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• Albert Camus is born
• Albert Camus dies
• Albert Camus receives Nobel Prize for Literature
• Albert Camus publishes L'Etranger (The Stranger)