Committed Writings

Albert Camus

Aug. 2020 · RB Media · Vorgelesen von Edoardo Ballerini

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The Nobel Prize winner’s most influential and enduring political writings

Albert Camus (1913–1960) is unsurpassed among writers for a body of work that animates the wonder and
absurdity of existence. Committed Writings brings together, for the first time, thematically linked essays from across
Camus’s writing career that reflect the scope of his political thought. This pivotal collection embodies Camus’s radical
and unwavering commitment to upholding human rights, resisting fascism, and creating art in the service of justice.

Autoren-Profil

Born in 1913 in Algeria, Albert Camus was a French novelist, dramatist, and essayist. He was deeply affected by the plight of the French during the Nazi occupation of World War II, who were subject to the military's arbitrary whims. He explored the existential human condition in such works as L'Etranger (The Outsider, 1942) and Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus, 1942), which propagated the philosophical notion of the "absurd" that was being given dramatic expression by other Theatre of the Absurd dramatists of the 1950s and 1960s. Camus also wrote a number of plays, including Caligula (1944). Much of his work was translated into English. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. Camus died in an automobile accident in 1960.