Camus
Albert
[al-ber] /alˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), 1913–60, French novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and essayist: Nobel Prize 1957.
Contemporary Examples
Still Cool Camus Allen Barra January 1, 2010
Still Cool Camus Allen Barra January 1, 2010
Still Cool Camus Allen Barra January 1, 2010
Why Albert Camus Remains Controversial Adam Kirsch October 19, 2013
Tony Lewis, American, Jew, Remembered Bernard Avishai October 23, 2013
Historical Examples
History of the Girondists, Volume I Alphonse de Lamartine
Practical Education, Volume II Maria Edgeworth
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness Thomas Frognall Dibdin
A Top-Floor Idyl George van Schaick
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness Thomas Frognall Dibdin
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): Nobel prize for literature 1957.
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