We were born at the beginning of the First World War. When we were adolescents, we had the Depression. When we were twenty, Hitler came. Then we had the Ethiopian war; the Spanish war; Munich.

But like Sisyphus, we can live with “the certainty ... your guts”. Noble prize winner Albert Camus at Parc des Princes This belief that rationalism has its limits is one of the reasons Camus ...

In March 1946, the French philosopher and novelist Albert Camus sailed ... one of the elite universities, like the Sorbonne or the École normale supérieure. Camus grew up in a working-class ...

Since his death in a car accident on January 4, 1960, Albert Camus has led a kind of ... These two versions of Camus, like a superhero and his all-too-human alter ego, are rarely seen at the ...

The French existentialist Albert Camus wrote a series of letters to a ... And in a world where everything has lost its meaning, those who, like us young Germans, are lucky enough to find meaning ...

But — as I have now, belatedly, discovered — there’s no substitute for finally sitting down and reading the 1947 novel “The Plague,” by Albert Camus ... the epidemic, like all ...

A hundred years after his birth, French writer-philosopher Albert Camus is perhaps best-remembered for novels like The Stranger and The Plague, and for his philosophy of absurdism. But it's ...

My favorite novel is Albert Camus’s The Plague ... It’s a problem because there’s no real reason for it. Like the plague, it’s just a thing that happens in the world whether we want ...

When the novel coronavirus claimed the world’s attention in 2020, so too did a novel by Albert Camus ... in the notion of the absurd. Like Camus, Zelenskyy has learned that the absurd ...