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.

Writing “The Plague” during the decimation of World War II, Albert Camus used disease as a metaphor for war — but also for war’s remedy.

Albert Camus was born on 7 November 1913, at Mondovi, a small town in the Bone district of Eastern Algeria. His father, Lucien Auguste Camus, was an itinerant vineyard worker, ...

ALBERT CAMUS was born in the Algerian town of Mondovi on November 7, 1913, the son of a Spanish mother and of an Alsatian agricultural worker who was killed in the Battle of the Marne.

Camus remained a friend and financial supporter of RP until his death. Albert Camus’s book L’Homme Révolte (translated into English as The Rebel), published in 1951, marked a clear break between him ...

O n 16 October 1957, Albert Camus was eating lunch at a restaurant in the heart of Paris’s Latin Quarter. Partway through the meal, a young man from his publisher’s office appeared. The young ...