Biography of Albert Camus

Realizations

November 7, 1913
January 4, 1960
Nobel Prize for literature in 1957, writer hardly amount to a specific literary movement, Albert Camus was born in Mondovi, Algeria in November 7, 1913 today Dréan. The father, a provider of grapes for local winemakers, dies very young during the first world war, at the battle of the Marne, serving "a country that wasn't his," as Camus will write down in his latest work, "Le premier homme", unfinished because of the author's untimely death. The young Camus remains with her mother and grandmother; the severity of the latter will play a very important role in the education of Albert.
Camus stood out in studies; Professor Jean Grenier, which established an important friendship, pushes him towards obtaining a scholarship to the prestigious University of Algiers. Tuberculosis strikes young Albert Camus: the disease unfortunately prevents him from attending the courses and continue to play football as a goalkeeper, sport in which he excelled.
Will end up as a private studies graduating in philosophy in 1936. In 1934 joined the Communist movement: his is more a definition of position in response to the Spanish civil war (1936-1939, which termierà with Franco's dictatorship) rather than a real interest to Marxist theories; This favourable attitude towards Communist ideologies, but detached will lead discussions with colleagues at the Center often Camus; often criticised, will take the distances by the actions of the party, for him not very useful to achieve the goal of unity of individuals and peoples. Simone Hie bride in 1934 but the marriage ends soon because of the dependency of women by psychotropic drugs.
Six years later the love life of Camus resumes with Francine Fauré. His professional career sees him often committed within newspaper newsrooms: one of the earliest uses is for a local newspaper Algerian however ends early due to one of his articles against the Government, which will then by all means to avoid a new occupation as a journalist for Camus in Algeria. Camus is forced to emigrate to France where he worked for Paris-Soir "together with his colleague Pascal Pia: these were the years of the Nazi occupation and Camus, first as an observer, then as an activist, trying to counter the German presence that considers heinous. In the years of endurance approaches the "Combat" for partisan cell whose namesake newspaper will edit different articles. After the war, his civil commitment remains constant: Camus does not bend in the face of no ideology, criticizing everything seems to alienate man from his dignity. Gives way to UNESCO because of Francoist Spain's entry into the UN.
It will also be among the few to openly criticize the brutal methods of the Soviets during the Suppression of a strike in the city of East Berlin. After "the myth of Sisyphus" (1942), which constitutes a strong awareness on the analysis of human absurdity, public in 1952 the essay "the man in revolt", which brought him into controversy with the magazine "Les temps modernes" and breaking of relations with Jean-Paul Sartre, with whom he undertook numerous collaborations, since World War II. Ideally comes out from the category of "existentialists", which many critics had relegated but which Camus had always felt foreign.
Camus in his works has always sought in a profound way the bond between human beings, trying to communicate that absurdity inherent in human events such as war or, in General, the divisions of thought, that Camus identifies as unwitting actions aimed at severing the bond between individuals. He died on January 4, 1960 due to a car accident, which occurred in the small town of Villeblevin (near Sens). Camus had in the past got to express several times that a car accident it would have been way more absurd than die. In his pocket was an unused train ticket: it is believed she had thought to make that journey by train, only changing their minds at the last minute.
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