Albert Camus’ philosophical ... and is the master of his fate. Camus sees a small measure of gratification and also triumph in tragedy. Camus praises Sisyphus as an “absurd” hero for ...

That each man’s liberty has as its frontier the liberty of others is the hub of the humanist values which Albert Camus ... almost never his own biography.” Here Camus furnishes us with an ...

On 16 October 1957, Albert Camus was eating lunch ... and in any case Camus adored the experience of being alive; the tragedy was precisely that reality was so sumptuous, yet was forever slipping ...

In The Stranger the admirable short novel now published in English, Albert Camus has in fact expressed the tragedy of integrity as a modern man can sense it. The story is simple. A man ...

Albert Camus, who would be 100 years old Thursday, is ageless. The French Algerian’s life and work reflect the long tragedy of the 20th century, marked by disquiet, genocide and violence ...

Albert Camus is one of those ... The Algerian war, on the other hand, appeared to Camus as a clash between two rights, as in an ancient Greek tragedy. He himself belonged to the community of ...

Albert Camus grappled with virtually ... Throughout the book, Hawes sensitively reads Camus’ writings and judiciously dips into his biography to vividly evoke his character and milieu.

On the third day, I needed to look up a line in “A Happy Death” and went over to the Camus section. There it was, along with the biography by Herbert Lottman that had fallen apart while I was ...