albert camus

     

Published posthumously in 1970, his first novel, "A Happy Death", features a protagonist named Patrice Mersault

Trivia about albert camus

  • "The Stranger","The Plague"
  • An Algerian named Mersault is the narrator of his 1942 novel "L' Etranger"
  • This Algerian-born novelist's "The Stranger" is based on his essay "The Myth of Sisyphus"
  • He published "The Plague" in 1947
  • Algerian-born Frenchman who wrote "The Stranger" before he worked for the resistance during WWII
  • This intellectual known for his concept of the absurd classifies rebels into world deniers and world affirmers
  • His attack on Stalinism in 1951's "L'Homme Revolte" put a chink in his relationship with Sartre
  • An auto accident in January cut short the life of this French author of "The Stranger"
  • He was no "Stranger" to the Nobel Prize for Literature, winning in 1957
  • 1957:This Frenchman who wrote "The First Man" & "The Plague"
  • 1957:A.C.,France
  • A rat infestation takes its toll on a French town in this Algerian-born author's "The Plague"
  • His "Myth of Sisyphus" outlined his theory of the absurd
  • Found at the car wreck that killed him, this writer's "The First Man" provides a glimpse of his childhood in Algeria