Albert Camus confronts the most serious question: suicide. He explores the feeling of absurdity that arises when humanity's search for meaning clashes with a silent, unreasonable world. This essay examines the human condition and the search for purpose in a meaningless existence.
Albert Camus was a French Algerian author, philosopher, and journalist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. He was a key philosopher of the 20th-century and his most famous work is the novel L'Étranger (The Stranger).
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. Camus was the second-youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize for L...