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Camus heiratet Simone Hié. Die Ehe wird 1940 wieder geschieden. Er arbeitet als Angestellter, um sich seinen Lebensunterhalt zu verdienen.
Die unter absurden Voraussetzungen zustande gekommene Ehe mit Simone Hié wurde nach dreizehn Monaten geschieden, die mit Francine Faure aus Oran hielt bis zu Camus' Tod – glücklich war auch sie nicht; daran ändert auch die Geburt der Zwillinge Jean und Cathérine im September 1945 nichts. Schon in Algier hat Camus ständig neue Geliebte ...
10. Juni 2014 · Simone Hié ist exaltiert und begehrt, ein Mädchen aus gutem Haus, sie trägt breitkrempige Hüte, Fuchs-Stola und High Heels. Camus gelt sich jetzt die Haare zurück, trägt Sakko und Fliege ...
8. Juli 2022 · La première, c’est la grand-mère au corps massif, au visage hommasse, coiffée d’un chignon austère, autoritaire, égorgeuse de poules, dressant Albert et son frère au martinet. Puis Camus...
- Life and Death
- Literary Career
- Political Stance
- Role in Algeria
- Philosophy
- Legacy
- Tributes
- References
- Further Reading
- External Links
Early years and education
Albert Camus was born on 7 November 1913 in a working-class neighbourhood in Mondovi (present-day Dréan), in French Algeria. His mother, Catherine Hélène Camus (née Sintès), was French with Balearic Spanish ancestry. She was deaf and illiterate. He never knew his father, Lucien Camus, a poor French agricultural worker killed in action while serving with a Zouave regiment, in October 1914, during World War I. Camus, his mother, and other relatives lived without many basic material possessions...
Formative years
In 1934, aged 20, Camus was in a relationship with Simone Hié. Simone had an addiction to morphine, a drug she used to ease her menstrual pains. His uncle Gustave did not approve of the relationship, but Camus married Hié to help her fight her addiction. He subsequently discovered she was in a relationship with her doctor at the same time and the couple later divorced. Camus joined the French Communist Party (PCF) in early 1935. He saw it as a way to "fight inequalities between Europeans and...
World War II, Resistance and Combat
Soon after Camus moved to Paris, the outbreak of World War II began to affect France. Camus volunteered to join the army but was not accepted because he had once had tuberculosis. As the Germans were marching towards Paris, Camus fled. He was laid off from Paris-Soir and ended up in Lyon, where he married pianist and mathematician Francine Faure on 3 December 1940. Camus and Faure moved back to Algeria (Oran), where he taught in primary schools. Because of his tuberculosis, he moved to the Fr...
Camus's first publication was a play called Révolte dans les Asturies (Revolt in the Asturias) written with three friends in May 1936. The subject was the 1934 revolt by Spanish miners that was brutally suppressed by the Spanish government resulting in 1,500 to 2,000 deaths. In May 1937 he wrote his first book, L'Envers et l'Endroit (Betwixt and Be...
Camus was a moralist; he claimed morality should guide politics. While he did not deny that morals change over time, he rejected the classical Marxist view that historical material relations define morality. Camus was also strongly critical of Marxism-Leninism, especially in the case of the Soviet Union, which he considered totalitarian. Camus rebu...
Born in Algeria to French parents, Camus was familiar with the institutional racismof France against Arabs and Berbers, but he was not part of a rich elite. He lived in very poor conditions as a child but was a citizen of France and as such was entitled to citizens' rights; members of the country's Arab and Berber majority were not. Camus was a voc...
Existentialism
Even though Camus is mostly connected to absurdism,he is routinely categorized as an existentialist, a term he rejected on several occasions. Camus himself said his philosophical origins lay in ancient Greek philosophy, Nietzsche, and 17th-century moralists, whereas existentialism arose from 19th- and early 20th-century philosophy such as Kierkegaard, Karl Jaspers, and Heidegger. He also said his work, The Myth of Sisyphus, was a criticism of various aspects of existentialism. Camus was rejec...
Absurdism
Many existentialist writers have addressed the Absurd, each with their own interpretation of what it is and what makes it important. Kierkegaard explains that the absurdity of religious truths prevents us from reaching God rationally. Sartre recognizes the absurdity of individual experience. Camus's thoughts on the Absurd begin with his first cycle of books and the literary essay The Myth of Sisyphus, (Le Mythe de Sisyphe), his major work on the subject. In 1942, he published the story of a m...
Revolt
Camus articulated the case for revolting against any kind of oppression, injustice, or whatever disrespects the human condition. He is cautious enough, however, to set the limits on the rebellion. L'Homme révolté (The Rebel) explains in detail his thoughts on the issue. There, he builds upon the absurd (described in The Myth of Sisyphus) but goes further. In the introduction, where he examines the metaphysics of rebellion, he concludes with the phrase "I revolt, therefore we exist" implying t...
Camus's novels and philosophical essays are still influential. After his death, interest in Camus followed the rise (and diminution) of the New Left. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, interest in his alternative road to communism resurfaced.He is remembered for his skeptical humanism and his support for political tolerance, dialogue, and ...
In Tipasa (Algeria), inside the Roman ruins, facing the sea and Mount Chenoua, a stelewas erected in 1961 in honor of Albert Camus with this phrase in French extracted from his work Noces à Tipasa:...The French Post published a stamp with his effigy on 26 June 1967.Sources
1. Amin, Nasser (2021). "The Colonial Politics of the Plague: Reading Camus in 2020". Journal of Contemporary Development & Management Studies. 9 Spring 2021: 28–38. Archived (PDF)from the original on 9 October 2022. 2. Aronson, Ronald (2004). Camus and Sartre: The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel that Ended it. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-22602-796-8. 3. Aronson, Ronald (2017). "Albert Camus". In Edward N. Zalta (ed.). The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 4. Bernstein, R...
Selected biographies
1. Thody, Philip Malcolm Waller (1957). Albert Camus: A Study of His Work. Hamish Hamilton. 2. Brisville, Jean-Claude (1959). Camus. Gallimard. 3. Parker, Emmett (1965). Albert Camus: The Artist in the Arena. Univ of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-03554-9. 4. King, Adele (1964). Albert Camus. Grove Press. 5. McCarthy, Patrick. Camus: A Critical Study of His Life and Work. Hamish Hamilton. ISBN 978-0-241-10603-7. 6. Sprintzen, David (February 1991). Camus: A Critical Examination. Temple Unive...
Albert Camus. Selective and Cumulative Bibliography Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback MachineWorks by Albert Camus at Faded Page(Canada)Albert Camus begann ein Studium der Philosophie an der Universität Algier, wo er mit dem jungen Professor Jean Grenier Freundschaft schloss. 1932, kurz nach Beginn seines Studiums, lernte er auf einer Soirée bei seinem Freund Max-Pol Fouchet dessen Verlobte Simone Hié (1914–1970) kennen.
Camus begann also ein Studium der Philosophie an der neu eröffneten Universität von Algier, wo er Freundschaft schloss mit einem jungen Professor, Jean Grenier. 1934, mit 21, d. h. eben volljährig geworden, heiratete er die 19-jährige Simone Hié, die hübsche, aber auch extravagante (und morphiumsüchtige) Ex-Verlobte eines Freundes ...
