Albert Camus, a renowned 20th-century writer and philosopher, explored life's big questions. His quote highlights that ...

Since his death in a car accident on January 4, 1960, Albert Camus has led a kind of double-afterlife. In the West, he is not only remembered as one of the great writers of the post-war era, but as a ...

It is a century since French Nobel prize-winning author Albert Camus was born – and more than 50 years since he died in an accident on an icy road – yet the polemics over his legacy and "mysterious" ...

Given the Panthéon’s function as the final repose for France’s greatest heroes, it’s perhaps not surprising that efforts are now afoot to relocate the ashes of writer and philosopher Albert Camus to a ...

In late August 1944, Albert Camus, then 31 years old, gazed out on a city convulsing with the ecstasy of long-desired liberation, and wrote, "Paris is firing all its ammunition into the August night.

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. This is ...

Some writers speak to us through the window of their time—we need to get back to where they once belonged to truly focus on the shape of their ideas—and a few speak to us permanently, jumping, with ...

The notebooks of Albert Camus, the French philosopher and novelist, have been collected in a single volume for the first time. By Dwight Garner When you purchase an independently reviewed book through ...

I MET him first in Paris in the early days of June, 1945. He had published The Stranger, which I had read and arranged to publish in America, and was about to complete The Plague (of which my office ...

Can you be the friend of someone whose politics are diametrically opposed to yours? The norms of social media would seem to forbid it. People today commonly self-identify as the enemy of some “other”.