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Camus

[ ka-my; English ka-moo ]

noun

  1. Al·bert [a, l-, ber], 1913–60, French novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and essayist: Nobel Prize 1957.


Camus

/ kamy /

noun

  1. CamusAlbert19131960MFrenchWRITING: novelistTHEATRE: dramatistWRITING: essayist 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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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.

Albert Camus used violence as a means of exploring meaning, or lack thereof, in his existential novels.

Camus answers that the absurdity of our tragic nature is actually benevolent.

Camus did not cower from the depressing implications of his insight.

The Myth of Sisyphusby Albert Camus It all begins and ends with Camus.

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 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.

I followed them, somewhat doubtfully, wondering what figure Master Paul would cut at Camus.

I hope so, and now what do you say to celebrating that new hat by going over to Camus for dinner?

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