Albert Camus

Part I of Essay
Born on November 7, 1913 in Mandoui, Algeria, earned a worldwide reputation as a novelist and essayist and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1957. Though his writings, and in some measure against his will, he became the leading moral voice of his generation during the ....

Part II of Essay
.... world to satisfy the human demand that it provide a basis for human values-for our personal ideals and for our judgments of right and wrong.” He maintained that suicide cannot be regarded as an adequate response to the “experience of absurdity.” He says that suicide is an admission of incapacity, and such an admission is inconsistent with that human pride to which Camus openly appeals. Camus states, “there is nothing equal to the spectacle of human pride.” Furthermore, Camus also dealt with the topic of revolution in his essay The Rebel. ....