
In an interview in 1945, Camus rejected any ideological associations: "No, I am not an existentialist. 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.

But it does not always end and, from one bad dream to the next, it is people who end, humanists first of all because they have not prepared themselves. He is the shortest-lived of any literature laureate to date, having died in an automobile accident just over two years after receiving the award. A pestilence does not have human dimensions, so people tell themselves that it is unreal, that it is a bad dream which will end. Camus was the second-youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature - after Rudyard Kipling - when he became the first African-born writer to receive the award. Personal Life Camus married and divorced twice as a young man, stating his. He died on January 4, 1960, in Burgundy, France. In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement, which was a group opposed to some tendencies of the surrealistic movement of André Breton. Albert Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. The novel presents a snapshot of life in Oran as seen through the.

The narrator remains unknown until the start of the last chapter, chapter 5 of part 5. Published in 1947, it tells the story from the point of view of a narrator of a plague sweeping the French Algerian city of Oran. He was a key philosopher of the 20th-century and his most famous work is the novel L'Étranger ( The Stranger). The Plague ( French: La Peste) is a novel by Albert Camus. Albert Camus was a French Algerian author, philosopher, and journalist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.
