Albert Camus speaks of happiness against a background of despair, and that is why his voice rings true. Aware as he is of the absurd, he stresses nothing like clear consciousness.

Albert Camus in Paris following the announcement that he had won the 1957 Nobel Prize for literature. (AFP/Getty Images) By David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times Book Critic .

Albert Camus’ ‘The Plague’ and our own Great Reset. Two police officers are the only ones on Rome’s Spanish Steps on March 10 amid the coronavirus outbreak.

Albert Camus is arguably one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. His relatively short life is well chronicled and the fodder of multiple conversations in university literature classes.

Novelist Albert Camus had it right: happiness lies in living in harmony with our surroundings. But what can this ...

Camus joined the second group at the end of 1942 and stayed with it until 1947. In those hazardous years, some of his finest editorials were printed in the Underground print shop, which had to ...

Albert Camus was born on November 7, 1913, in Mondovi, now Dréan, a town near Algeria’s northeast coast, 30 miles from the Tunisian border. His father, Lucien Auguste Camus, ...

Unthinkable: If you’re feeling overwhelmed and longing for real meaning, Viktor Frankl may be able to help. And if not, ...