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    Albert Camus Facts

    Albert Camus married Simone Hié, but they divorced in 1936. Albert Camus founded the Worker's Theatre (Théâtre du Travail) in 1935, which lasted until 1939. Albert Camus wrote for the Alger-Républicain, a socialist paper, from 1937 to 1939. Albert Camus wrote for the paper Soir-Republicain from 1939 to 1940. Albert Camus married Francine Faure in 1940. She was a mathematician and pianist. They had twins Jean and Catherine in 1945. Albert Camus began working for the magazine Paris-Soir in 1940. When the magazine moved to Bordeaux in 1941, following the Wehrmacht occupation of Paris, Albert followed. In 1941 Albert Camus finished his first novel titled The Stranger, and the non-fiction book The Myth of Sisyphus. The Stranger was published in 1942, and The Myth of Sisyphus was published in 1942 as well. Albert Camus founded the French Committee for the European Federation in 1944. Its first conference was held in 1
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    Western Philosophy
    Twentieth-century philosophy

    Name: Albert Camus
    Birth: November 7, 1913 (Mondovi, Algeria)
    Death: January 4, 1960 (Villeblevin, France)
    School/tradition: Absurdism, existentialism
    Main interests
    Ethics, Humanity, Justice, Love, Politics
    Notable ideas
    "The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth"
    Influences Influenced
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Franz Kafka, Søren Kierkegaard, Herman Melville, Nietzsche, Jean-Paul SartreWes Penre, Michael Novak, Thomas Merton, Jacques Monod, Jean-Paul Sartre

    Albert Camus (November 7, 1913 – January 4, 1960) was an Algerian-French writer and philosopher. He is best known for the existential themes in his writings, particularly the absurdity of existence in a brutal and apparently meaningless world. In novels and plays as well as philosophical works, he portrayed the struggle to find meaning in human life despite circumstances of despair and meaninglessness that def

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