Albert Camus is a French novelist, essayist and journalist whose works had great influence in the mid-20th century.
Camus was born in Mondovi, Algeria on November 7, 1913. L’etranger (1942, English tr. The Stranger, 1946) is narrated by a man named Mersault, a clerk in Algeria who blindly commits murder and then realizes the unique value of life and solidarity of man. Le mythe de Sisyphe (1943 English tr. The Plague 1948). L’homme révolté studies the concepts of personal and historical revolutions in Europe since the 18th century. His other works include Lettres à un ami allemand (1945), the dramas Le Malentendu (1944 English tr. The Misunderstanding, 1958) and Les justes (1949, The Just Assassins, 1958), La chute (1956, The Fall, 1957), L’été (1954), L’exile et le royaume (1957.