Camus

American  

[ka-my, ka-moo] / kaˈmü, kæˈmu /

noun

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

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Camus British  

/ 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.

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His magnificent memoir is a paean to human agency a century before Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

An epigraph from Camus that opens one chapter does little except answer the pressing question of whether Ms. Day has read Camus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

She claims to inhabit the soul of Albert Camus, and flings around aphorisms about art that fly over Cricket’s head.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

It’s the same sun beating down on us all, Albert Camus memorably conveyed in his oft-debated 1942 novel “The Stranger,” it’s just the individual temperatures that vary.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026

“I read this book once, written by this Algerian fellow. Camus was his name.”

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline