Albert+Camus

Albert Camus was a French Nobel Prize winning philosopher, author, and journalist. He mostly wrote about ethics, humanity, justice, and politics. He  was born on November 7th, 1913 and died January 4th, 1960 at age 46 from a car accident. He was born in Dr é an. His mother was a Spanish descent who could only hear out of her left ear. His father was a poor agricultural worker of French Alsatian descent, he was wounded in WWI.  Albert Camus had a successful literary career. During war, Camus joined the French Resistance which published an underground newspaper. The French Resistance worked against the Nazis. In 1943, Camus became the French Resistance's editor. Camus wrote about everything important going on in the war during the time. When the allies liberated Paris in 1944, Camus was able to witness and report the last of the fighting. Then is August 1945, Camus was one of the few authors that expressed oppos ition to the United States dropping atomic bombs in Japan. Camus resigned from the French Resistance in 1947.  Camus was also famous for philosophy. His first major contribution to philosophy was his idea of absurd. His idea of absurd was about our desire for clarity and meaning within a world and condition that offers neither. He expressed this in //The Myth of Sisyphus// and other works such as //The Stranger// and //The Plague//. In the 1950's Camus devoted his efforts to human rights. He criticized a strike in East Berlin and protested in Poland. He also contributed to the Algerian War in 1954 and argued that " the Algerian uprising was an integral part of the 'new Arab imperialism' led by Egypt and an 'anti-Western' offensive orchestrated by Russia to 'encircle Europe' and 'isolate the United States".  In 1957, Camus received the Nobel Prize in literature for "his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times". Camus remained ambitious for the rest of his life. He wrote more books and even plays. He inspired many people and contributed to showing the French the existing problems during the time and what to do. Many people look up to him and he is well known.