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Advertisement Albert Camus Encyclopedia Article Find Print E-mail Blog It Multimedia 2 items Article Outline Introduction Life Works Assessment I Introduction Print this section Albert Camus (1913-1960), French-Algerian novelist, essayist, dramatist, and journalist, a Nobel laureate whose concepts of the absurd and of human revolt address and suggest solutions to the problem of meaninglessness in modern human life. II Life Print this section Camus was born at Mondovi (now Drean), Algeria, to a French father and a Spanish mother. After his father was killed in 1914, at the beginning of World War I, Camus was raised in poverty by his grandmother and his mother, an illiterate charwoman. Tuberculosis put an end to his studies at the University of Algiers, forcing him also to abandon soccer and to curtail his life in the theater as a playwright, director, and actor. These activities were the passions of his youth. Camus then became interested in politics, was briefly a member of the Communist Party, and in the 1930s began a career in journalism. | |
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