A poor child of Algiers, Albert Camus entered literature with The Foreigner in 1942. Revolted by colonialism as well as by the terrorist violence of the Algerian war, he received the Nobel Prize in 1957 but was hated by the intellectuals of Saint Germain des Pres. His untimely death leaves his work unfinished.
Very young, Albert Camus is noticed by his teacher in class of studies certificate for his exceptional dispositions. The high school student entered the khâgne then the faculty of philosophy but tuberculosis prevented him from passing the agrégation in philosophy in 1937 and Albert had to give up becoming a teacher.
At the age of 21, he joined the Communist Party but his commitment was cut short, the young man dabbled in journalism at L’Alger Républicain and began to write. When the war arrived in 1939, Albert Camus, reformed because of his illness, returned at his mother’s house where he finishes a play, Caligula. He is only 27 years old, no relations, no diploma but already a very precise vision of his future, with a novel, The Stranger, which will be published during the Occupation, in 1942, and a philosophical essay in project. on the absurdity of the human condition: The Myth of Sisyphus.
On January 4, 1960, the world of letters learned, in dismay, the brutal death in a road accident of the writer Albert Camus (46 years old) who had theorized the absurdity of the human condition and also combated the absurdity of a cruel conflict that ravaged his native land, Algeria
