“Peace is the only battle worth waging.”
― Albert Camus
* Albert Camus was an Algerian-born French
author, philosopher, and journalist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for
Literature in 1957. He is often cited as a proponent of existentialism (the
philosophy that he was associated with during his own lifetime), but Camus
himself rejected this particular label. Specifically, his views contributed to
the rise of the more current philosophy known as absurdism. He wrote in his
essay The Rebel that his whole life was devoted to opposing the philosophy of
nihilism while still delving deeply into individual freedom.
In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the
Revolutionary Union Movement, which (according to the book Albert Camus, une vie
by Olivier Todd) was a group opposed to some tendencies of the surrealistic
movement of André Breton. Camus was the second-youngest recipient of the Nobel
Prize for Literature (after Rudyard Kipling) when he became the first
Africa-born writer to receive the award, in 1957. He is also the shortest-lived
of any literature laureate to date, having died in an automobile accident just
over two years after receiving the award.
In an interview in 1945, Camus
rejected any ideological associations: "No, I am not an existentialist. Sartre
and I are always surprised to see our names linked..."
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