A camus
[ka-my; english ka-moo] /kaˈmü; english kæˈmu/
noun
albert
[al-ber] /alˈbɛr/ (show ipa), 1913–60, french novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and essayist: n-bel prize 1957.
camus
/french kamy/
noun
albert (albɛr). 1913–60, french novelist, dramatist, and essayist, noted for his pessimistic portrayal of man’s condition of isolation in an absurd world: author of the novels l’étranger (1942) and la peste (1947), the plays le malentendu (1945) and caligula (1946), and the essays le mythe de sisyphe (1942) and l’homme révolté (1951): n-bel prize for literature 1957.
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