Albert Camus

Albert Camus (November 7, 1913 – January 4, 1960) was a French author and philosopher and one of the principal luminaries (with Jean-Paul Sartre) of existentialism. Camus was the second youngest-ever recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (after Rudyard Kipling) when he received the award in 1957. He is also the shortest-lived of any literature laureate to date.

Famous works

Novels

• The Stranger (L'Étranger, also translated as The Outsider) (1942)
• The Plague (La Peste) (1947)
• The Fall (La Chute) (1956)
• A Happy Death (La Mort heureuse) (early version of The Stranger, published posthumously 1970)
• The First Man (Le premier homme) (incomplete, published posthumously 1995)

Short stories

• Exile and the Kingdom (L'exil et le royaume) (1957)
• The Guest

Non-fiction

• Betwixt and Between (L'envers et l'endroit, also translated as The Wrong Side and the Right Side) (collection, 1937)
• Neither Victim Nor Executioner (Combat) (1946)
• The Myth of Sisyphus (Le Mythe de Sisyphe) (1942)
• The Rebel (L'Homme révolté) (1951)
• Notebooks 1935-1942 (Carnets, mai 1935 -- fevrier 1942) (1962)
• Notebooks 1943-1951 (1965)

Plays

• Caligula (performed 1945, written 1938)
• The Misunderstanding (Le Malentendu) (1944)
• State of Siege (L'État de siège) (1948)
• The Just Assassins (Les Justes) (1949)

Collections

• Youthful Writings
• Resistance, Rebellion, and Death (1961 - Collection of essays selected by the author)

Movies

• Luchino Visconti made a movie of The Stranger in 1967, starring Marcello Mastroianni.
• Luis Puenzo and Felix Monti were responsible for a modern day rendition of The Plague in 1991. The film starred William Hurt.

Bibliography

• Heiner Wittmann, Albert Camus. Kunst und Moral. Dialoghi/Dialogues. Literatur und Kultur Italiens und Frankreichs. Hrsg. Dirk Hoeges, Peter Lang, Frankfurt/M u.a. 2002