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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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

The existential philosophy of Camus and Sartre, self-evident truths for these absurdist writers, is conveyed less through the content than through the style of their plays.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026

Camus used his journals to wrestle with the ideas he explored in books such as “The Stranger” and “The Myth of Sisyphus.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

His notebooks, newly republished in an English translation by Ryan Bloom, are full of similar passages in which Camus reproaches himself to get to work and stay true to his beliefs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

But Camus gives his hero a way out, though not one that many people would choose.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers