The Stranger (Postoronniy)

Albert Camus was a French writer and philosopher, a representative of existentialism, and during his lifetime became popularly known as the “Conscience of the West.” He was the 1957 Nobel Prize laureate in Literature.

Albert Camus was born on 7 November 1913 in Algiers, on the Saint-Paul farm near the settlement of Mondovi. His father, Lucien Camus, an agricultural worker of Alsatian origin, was killed at the Battle of the Marne at the beginning of World War I. His mother, Catherine Sintès, of Spanish nationality, moved with the children to the city of Algiers.

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