Camus

Ca·mus

[ka-my; English ka-moo]
noun
Al·bert [al-ber] , 1913–60, French novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and essayist: Nobel prize 1957.
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Camus (French kamy) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
Albert (albɛr). 1913--60, French novelist, dramatist, and essayist, noted for his pessimistic portrayal of man's condition of isolation in an absurd world: author of the novels L'Étranger (1942) and La Peste (1947), the plays Le Malentendu (1945) and Caligula (1946), and the essays Le Mythe de Sisyphe (1942) and L'Homme révolté (1951): Nobel prize for literature 1957.

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