Camus

[ka-my, ka-moo]

noun

1. Albert 1913–60, French novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and essayist: Nobel Prize 1957.

Camus

/ kamy /

noun

1. Albert (albɛr). 1913–60, French novelist, dramatist, and essayist, noted for his pessimistic portrayal of man's condition of isolation in an absurd world: author of the novels L'Étranger (1942) and La Peste (1947), the plays Le Malentendu (1945) and Caligula (1946), and the essays Le Mythe de Sisyphe (1942) and L'Homme révolté (1951): Nobel prize for literature 1957.

Example Sentences

Before the second bomb struck Nagasaki, French philosopher Albert Camus expressed his horror that even in a war defined by unprecedented, industrialized slaughter, Hiroshima stood apart.

From Salon

Albert Camus believed that to rebel is to say no to injustice, which is simultaneously a positive act of solidarity.

From Salon

Risen likens the dormant durability of such national hysteria to the illness described by Albert Camus in his 1947 novel “The Plague.”

From Los Angeles Times

Corbet likens the moment to Albert Camus’ novel “The Stranger” when a character explains all the factors that went into the moment when he killed someone in cold blood.

From Los Angeles Times

He became a newspaper columnist and won international acclaim in 2015 for his first novel The Meursault Investigation, which was a reworking of The Stranger by Albert Camus.

From BBC