Camus
Al·bert [al-ber], /alˈbɛr/, 1913–60, French novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and essayist: Nobel Prize 1957.
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Camus says the startup is receiving thousands of applications per month, of which only a fraction are accepted in an effort to ensure that the small startup isn’t overcommitting itself early on.
Edtech startup Microverse raises $12.5M to bring income share agreements to the developing world | Lucas Matney | July 1, 2021 | TechCrunchAlbert Camus used violence as a means of exploring meaning, or lack thereof, in his existential novels.
Is ‘Satisfaction’ a Love Story That’s Too Real About Sex and Marriage? | David Masciotra | September 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTCamus answers that the absurdity of our tragic nature is actually benevolent.
New Year’s Reading List: Books to Transform Your Sad Life | David Masciotra | January 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTCamus did not cower from the depressing implications of his insight.
New Year’s Reading List: Books to Transform Your Sad Life | David Masciotra | January 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Myth of Sisyphusby Albert Camus It all begins and ends with Camus.
New Year’s Reading List: Books to Transform Your Sad Life | David Masciotra | January 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
But most of all, it made you decent, like Dr. Rieux in Camus's The Plague.
There it remained until 1728, when Le Camus bought the place and turned the theatre into stables.
The Stones of Paris in History and Letters, Volume I (of 2) | Benjamin Ellis MartinThe house of Garcio-Camus had the further advantage of sometimes being favored with a call from the Tartars.
We will take her to dinner at Camus, and give her a benedictine and six cups of black coffee.
A Top-Floor Idyl | George van SchaickI followed them, somewhat doubtfully, wondering what figure Master Paul would cut at Camus.
A Top-Floor Idyl | George van SchaickI hope so, and now what do you say to celebrating that new hat by going over to Camus for dinner?
A Top-Floor Idyl | George van Schaick
British Dictionary definitions for Camus
/ (French kamy) /
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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