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4	->''"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."''
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6	Albert Camus (7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a Nobel Prize-winning UsefulNotes/{{Algeria}}-[=born=] UsefulNotes/{{Fr\|ance}}ench novelist, playwright, essayist, and philosopher according to Creator/JeanPaulSartre, although Camus [[InsistentTerminology famously denied the last]].
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8	He is best known for his novels ''Literature/TheStranger'' and ''Literature/ThePlague'', and for his essay "The Myth of Sisyphus". He was a member of the French Resistance during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, editing the underground journal "Combat" (''Fight'' in french). He is considered a central figure in {{UsefulNotes/Existentialism}} and {{Absurdism}}.
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10	Camus worked as a journalist and essayist, contributing a number of articles on several important issues of the day. He was particularly fascinated by the question of the death penalty, believing that [[ThouShaltNotKill execution by the state was immoral]], even when the person sentenced was guilty of the crime of murder. Such questions informed his famous works of fiction.
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12	Politically, Camus was controversial among the French Left for his rejection of [[UsefulNotes/{{Socialism}} Communism]], his belief that violence in any context, even in the case of revolution and resistance, was unjustified. This became problematic for Camus during the situation of the Algerian War of Independence, where he denounced violence on both sides, and equated the activities of the anti-[[UsefulNotes/TheFrenchColonialEmpire colonialist]] FLN with those of the French state. This heightened his break with Sartre who argued for an uncompromising anti-colonialism, and it hurt Camus' standing among other intellectuals of the Third World such as Edward Said and Frantz Fanon.
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14	Camus was working on his final novel when he died in a car crash at the rather young age of 47. He is considered one of the most influential writers of the 20th Century, namely for being the first to question and challenge the reader's sympathy with protagonists and questioning the nature of motivations and the extent to which environment, personality, and ideas drive our actions and everyday life. Despite the seriousness of his work, he is considered a highly accessible writer, and he was popular in France, and among college students in the Anglophone world. This is because Camus wanted to write for a non-academic audience, and he was highly inspired by a number of popular writers. Likewise, his works are often short, and written in the French version of BeigeProse, clear and lucid to follow, straightforward in its outline of plot, with the main ambiguity being the characters' often unmotivated actions and sense of being.
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16	!!Works by Albert Camus with their own trope pages include:
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18	* ''Literature/ThePlague''
19	* ''Literature/TheStranger''
20	* ''Literature/{{The Fall\|1956}}''
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23	!!Tropes found across his works:
24	* PhilosophicalParable

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