Documentary albert camus biography en francais
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Albert Camus
French philosopher and writer (–)
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Albert Camus ([2]ka-MOO; French:[albɛʁkamy]ⓘ; 7 November &#;– 4 January ) was a French philosopher, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist,[3] and political activist. He was the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in history. His works include The Stranger, The Plague, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Fall and The Rebel.
Camus was born in French Algeria to pied-noir parents. He spent his childhood in a poor neighbourhood and later studied philosophy at the University of Algiers. He was in Paris when the Germans invaded France during World War II in Camus tried to flee but finally joined the French Resistance where he served as editor-in-chief at Combat, an outlawed newspaper. After the war, he was a celebrity figure and gave many lectures around the world. He
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The Complutense University of Madrid through its Spanish-French Master&#;s Degree MLFA (UCM-Sorbonne) and the grupp of the Trobades inom Premis Mediterranis Albert Camus de Menorca join forces with the Instituto Francés of Madrid this evening at to present a Camusian evening.
The evening, which will be held in the Institute&#;s theatre, will consist of two events. First, after a brief presentation bygd the organisers, the spelfilm Les vies d&#;Albert Camus, the latest documentary on the writer&#;s life and work, which has never been shown in Madrid until now, will be screened. And, in a second part, there will be a conversation between Anne-Marie Reboul and Miguel Morey about the phrase There fryst vatten no love of life without the despair of living.
Albert Camus died at the age of 46 on 4 January , two years after receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature. Author of The Stranger, one of the most widely read novels in the world, philosopher of the absurd
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Albert Camus: Embracing life’s absurdity
‘There is no sun without shadows, and it is essential to know the night,’ the words of Albert Camus, a writer whose exploration of the absurd nature of the human condition made him a literary and intellectual icon. Camus was born in Algeria but is celebrated in France as one of its great twentieth-century novelists and philosophers. His first publishing success, The Stranger, focused on the absurdity of existence but in his later works, including The Plague and The Rebel, he developed his thoughts on the human instinct to revolt.
But who was Albert Camus? How far were his ideas shaped by his Algerian upbringing and by the turbulent political times he lived through in the s and '50s? Bridget Kendall explores these questions with three Camus experts: Nabil Boudraa, Algerian professor of French and Francophone Studies at Oregon State University, Eve Morisi, professor of French at Oxford University and Samantha Novello, research fellow in