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 Albert Camus's Profile |
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The absurd is born from the human need for meaning and the unreasonable silence of the world. |
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| Age: | 37 years old |
| Sex: | Male |
| Location: | Paris, Texas |
| Country: |  United States |
| Zodiac: |  Scorpio (Oct 23 - Nov 21) |
| Last Login: | Jun 5, 2008 (582 days back) |
About Me |
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| "No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our situation." "If I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers." I am Albert Camus, born into a working class family in Algeria November 7, 1913. I spent the early years of my life in North Africa, where I worked at various jobs to pay for the courses I was taking at the University of Algiers. Upon graduation I became a journalist. My report on the unhappy state of the Muslims of the Kabylie region aroused the Algerian government to action and brought me public notice. From 1935 to 1938 I ran a theatrical company that produced plays by Malraux, Gide, Synge, Dostoevsky, among others. During World War Two I was one of the leading writers of the French Resistance and editor of Combat an important underground newspaper. I have always been active in theatre, and several of my plays have been published and produced. My books however have been the mainstay of my cultural impact. They include The Stranger, The Plague, The fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and The Rebel. These have ensured my prominent position in modern French literature. I also was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. For more information on me go to my Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Camus |
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| Theatre, Classic Literature, Philosophy, Politics, Human Rights. | |
I'd like to meet:What then is our absurd situation? Hugo, perhaps, answers it best in Les Miserables as Jean Valjean wrestles with his conscience. He writes:
Alas! In this unrelenting pugilism between our selfishness and our duty, when we recoil this way step by step before our immutable ideal, bewildered, enraged, exasperated at yielding, disputing the ground, hoping for possible flight, seeking some outlet, how abrupt and ominous is the resistance of the wall behind us!
Albert Camus 100% Jean-Paul Sartre 71% Martin Heidegger 36% Not An Existentialist 29% Friedrich Nietzsche 25% Soren Kierkegaard 14% ------------------------------------------------------------ --- Sadly, because certain individuals have decided to abuse their rights as friends and use the comment section of the page as an advertising medium to pimp their various enlargement products and ¨free¨ things, I am now previewing all incoming comments. From now on I will not be allowing comments onto the page that are not of a philosophical or serious literary nature. This means that I will not be posting your ¨thank you¨ comments, band adverts, inane poems, etc. Thank you. |
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Books:A Selection of Works in English [with publishing dates]The Stranger (The Outsider) [1946] Caligula and Cross Purpose [1947] The Plague [1948] The Rebel [1953] The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays [1955] The Fall [1957] Caligula and Three Other Plays [1958] Exile and the Kingdom [1958] Speech of Acceptance upon the Award of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Delivered in Stockholm on the Tenth of December, 1957 [1958] The Possessed: a Play in Three parts (adapted from Dostoevsky) [1960] Caligula : a Drama in Two Acts [1961] Resistance, Rebellion and Death [1961] Notebooks. – Vol. 1: 1935-1942 [1963] Notebooks. – Vol. 2: 1942-1951 [1965] Lyrical and Critical Essays [1968] A Happy Death [1972] Youthful Writings [1976] American Journals [1987] The First Man [1995] Summer [1995] Oeuvres et dates de publication L'envers et l'endroit [1937] Caligula [1938] Noces [1939] L'étranger [1942] Le mythe de Sisyphe [1942] Le malentendu [1944] Lettres à un ami allemand [1945] La peste [1947] L'état de siège [1948] Actuelles : chroniques 1944-1948 [1950] Les justes : pièces en cinq actes [1950] L'homme révolté [1951] Actuelles II : Chroniques 1948-1953 [1953] L'été [1954] La chute [1956] L'exil et le royaume [1957] Actuelles III : Chronique algérienne 1939-1958 [1958] Discours de Suède [1958] Les possédés : pièce en trois parties adaptée du roman de Dostoïevski [1959] Carnets, mai 1935 - février 1942 [1962] Carnets, janvier 1942 - mars 1951 [1964] Essais [1965] La mort heureuse [1971] Écrits de jeunesse // Viallaneix, Paul, Le premier Camus suivi de Écrits de jeunesse d'Albert Camus [1973] Journaux de voyage [1978] Le Premier homme [1994] |
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Heroes:You. The living.Vous. Ceux qui vivent. |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| MaritalStatus: | Divorced |
| Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian |
| SexualOrientation: | Straight |
| Hometown: | Algiers |
| Religion: | Agnostic |
| Smoker: | Yes |
| Drinker: | Yes |
| Children: | Proud parent |
| Education: | Grad / professional school |
| Occupation: | Writer/Absurdist |
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Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech (English) |
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| (Thank you to www.nobelprize.org for the speech)
Albert Camus' speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1957(Translation)
In receiving the distinction with which your fr... Posted by Albert Camus on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:16:00 PST |
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on Kierkegaard |
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| Of all perhaps the most engaging [existentialist], Kierkegaard, for a part of his existence at least, does more than discover the absurd, he lives it. The man who writes: The surest of stubborn silenc... Posted by Albert Camus on Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:02:00 PST |
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On Suicide and Megalomania in Dostoevsky |
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| All of Dostoevsky's heroes question themselves as to the meaning of life. In this they are modern. They do not fear ridicule. What distinguishes modern sensibility from classical sensibility is that t... Posted by Albert Camus on Sat, 08 Jul 2006 06:18:00 PST |
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