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This war would have a significant impact in Albert Camus early life
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His father died a year after he'd been born fighting in WW1, this is a crucial moment in his life. Though he doesn't remember when he died, this made his mom have an even more significant and close role to Albert Camus.
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Taught by a teacher Louis Germain, helped him win a scholarship to the university he'd attend
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He had won a scholarship to enter a university by the name of Algiers Lycee
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They began their marriage, with Albert hoping to help Simone overcome her addiction to morphine that'd formed at 14 due to her prescriptions. -
He'd get a graduates degree in philosophy, "with an ambitious thesis entitled Christian Metaphysics
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The marriage had come to an end when Simone's morphine addiction, led to her meeting and having an affair with her doctor.
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After he'd gotten his degree he would enter the communist party, though they threw him out after he'd voiced his concerns on their ideology and their local + international implementations.
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You can see some influences of this war in future writing
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Francine was a mathematician as well as a pianist -
A work of fiction that reflects Albert Camus philosophy of Absurdism -
"Roman Emperor Caligula is driven to insanity after the loss of Drusilla, his sister and lover. Violence, conflicts, plots, bickering with the Patricians compose a suffocating environment, which, in essence, he is creating so as to provoke his death. He becomes a mirror of the society surrounding him and incarnates in full awareness the insanity of existence and the impossibility of happiness. Caligula is the story of a ‘superior’ suicide." Said to be a story exploring tyranny and absurdity. -
"A man who has been living overseas for many years returns home to find his sister and widowed mother are making a living by taking in lodgers and murdering them. Since neither his sister nor his mother recognize him, he becomes a lodger himself without revealing his identity." -
Albert had met Maria as he had chosen her to play a leading role in his play; The Misunderstanding. They then became lovers a few months later This affair would last until his death. -
Hjalmar Gullberghad nominated Albert Camus for the nobel prize, this would be the first time Albert Camus was nominated.
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Albert Camus and his wife Francine Faure would have 2 twin kids. -
People often view this work to be "A war allegory of the French resistance to the Nazis in World War II, pointing out the futility of human aspirations and the inevitability of suffering." As the story focuses on the bubonic plague in the lense of Albert's absurdist philosophies. -
Francine attempted to jump off a hospital's balcony, due to her severe depression and Alberts affair with Maria. This incident leaving Albert with immense guilt would inspire his next book, The Fall.
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Harry Martinson would be the 5th person to nominate Albert Camus for the Nobel.
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"Over several drunken nights in an Amsterdam bar, he regales a chance acquaintance with his story. From this successful former lawyer and seemingly model citizen a compelling, self-loathing catalogue of guilt, hypocrisy and alienation pours forth." It is said to " Fall explores themes of innocence, imprisonment, non-existence, and truth." -
Earned for exploring his philosophies through literature and exploring the human mind. Sylvère Monod would be the one to nominate him for the 11th time. -
"They were on their way back to Paris. He carried in his briefcase the loose sheets of
the fragmentary version of Le Premier Homme. When the speeding car hit a tree, both the driver and the
passenger next to him died instantly. Camus was 47 years old. His unexpected brutal death sent shock waves
through the world which resonated for several days in the extensive reports of the world press and other
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The manuscript for this book was found at the site of the crash. They decided to publish the book unfinished. -
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https://www.tch.gr/default.aspx?lang=en-GB&page=78&tcheid=1891#:~:text=In%20the%20best%20known%20play,as%20to%20provoke%20his%20death. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correspondance_(1944%E2%80%931959) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Misunderstanding#:~:text=A%20man%20who%20has%20been,himself%20without%20revealing%20his%20identity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francine_Faure#:~:text=Francine%20Faure%20(6%20December%201914,Lyon%20on%203%20December%201940.
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