Albert Camus

A Happy Death was the first novel by French writer-philosopher Albert Camus. The existentialist topic of the book is the "will to happiness," the conscious creation of one's happiness, and the need of time to do so. It draws on memories of the author including his job at the maritime commission in Algiers, his …

Exile and the Kingdom is a 1957 collection of six short stories by French-Algerian writer Albert Camus. The underlying theme of these stories is human loneliness and feeling foreign and isolated in one's own society.Camus writes about outsiders living in Algeria who straddle the divide between the Muslim world and …