1. By: Nishit Arora Period 0 Mrs. Jauch
Albert Camus!
By: Nishit Arora
Period 0
Mrs. Jauch

2. Early Life
Born in November 7, 1913 in French Algeria (colonized by France in 1830)
Mother was half-deaf and his father died in WWI in the Battle of Marne
Admitted in the University of Algiers (1923)
Had tuberculosis which then ended his football career (soccer) so to earn money, he worked in the weather bureau, in an automobile-accessory firm (ships), and was also a private tutor.

3. Continued He joined the French Communist Party in 1935
He joined the activities in of the Algerian People’s Party which got him denounced from the FCP
Went on to become associated with the anarchist movement
He wrote for anarchist publications (Le Libertaire)
He supported the uprising in East Germany in Also, supported the workers’ uprising in Poznan, Poland and the Hungarian Revolution.

4. His Marriage Life and Belief
In 1934, he married Simone Hie but ended quickly
In 1940, he then married Francine Faure, a pianist and mathematician. They had twins named Catherine and Jean.
He did love her but was against the institution of marriage and saying that it is unnatural.
He had affairs with her which included with Maria Casares.

5. Others
He founded the Revolutionary Union Movement- group opposed the Surrealist Movement of Andre Breton.
His main aim was to express the positive side of surrealism and existentialism.
Also founded the European Federalist Movement but was dissolved the next year in 1945

6. Works/Plays
His report on the unhappy state of the Muslims of the Kabylie region aroused the Algerian government to action and brought him public notice. Also about the poor in that region and the bad living conditions they faced.
He ran the Théâtre de l'Equipe, a company that produced plays by Malraux, Gide, Synge, Dostoevski, and other.
During WWII, one of the leading writers of the French Resistance and editor of Combat.
He was very active in the theater and some of his plays were published/produced.
Expressed his opposition of the US bombing in Hiroshima in public
His work was dualist: happiness and sadness, light and dark, etc.
Also talked about “the absurd”- refers to the conflict between the human tendency to seek value and meaning in life and the human inability to find any

7. Non Fiction Books Novels The Stranger The Myth of Sisyphus The Plague
The Fall
A Happy Death
The First Man
The Myth of Sisyphus
The Rebel
Betwixt and Between

8. Plays Essays Caligula The Misunderstanding The Just Assassins
The Possessed
Create Dangerously
The Ancient Greek Tragedy
The Crisis of Man
Why Spain?
Neither Victims Nor Executioners

9. Death! Died January 4 1960 It was a car accident near Sens
Buried in the Lourmarin Cemetery
BUT…. Nobel Prize in Literature

10. Thanks For Listening!