His austere search for moral order found its aesthetic correlative in the classicism of his art. People also well know La Chute ( The Fall), work of Camus in 1956.Ĭamus authored L'Exil et le royaume ( Exile and the Kingdom) in 1957. Without having the unreasonable ambition to save men, we still want to serve them.' The time demanded his response, chiefly in his activities, but in 1947, Camus retired from political journalism.ĭoctor Rieux of La Peste ( The Plague), 1947, who tirelessly attends the plague-stricken citizens of Oran, enacts the revolt against a world of the absurd and of injustice, and confirms words: 'We refuse to despair of mankind. Meursault, central character of L'Étranger ( The Stranger), 1942, illustrates much of this essay: man as the nauseated victim of the absurd orthodoxy of habit, later - when the young killer faces execution - tempted by despair, hope, and salvation.īesides his fiction and essays, Camus very actively produced plays in the theater (e.g., Caligula, 1944). The essay Le Mythe de Sisyphe ( The Myth of Sisyphus), 1942, expounds notion of acceptance of the absurd of Camus with 'the total absence of hope, which has nothing to do with despair, a continual refusal, which must not be confused with renouncement - and a conscious dissatisfaction.'

The man and the times met: Camus joined the resistance movement during the occupation and after the liberation served as a columnist for the newspaper Combat. Of semi-proletarian parents, early attached to intellectual circles of strongly revolutionary tendencies, with a deep interest, he came at the age of 25 years in 1938 only chance prevented him from pursuing a university career in that field.

One may trace his enjoyment of the theater back to his membership in l'Equipe, an Algerian group, whose 'collective creation' Révolte dans les Asturies (1934) was banned for political reasons. He also adapted plays of Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Lope de Vega, Dino Buzzati, and Requiem for a Nun of William Faulkner. Origin and his experiences of this representative of non-metropolitan literature in the 1930s dominated influences in his thought and work. Works, such as the novels The Stranger (1942) and The Plague (1947), of Algerian-born French writer and philosopher Albert Camus concern the absurdity of the human condition he won the Nobel Prize of 1957 for literature.

Camus the myth of sisyphus