Albert Camus

The Myth of Sisyphus is a philosophical essay by Albert Camus. It comprises about 119 pages and was published originally in 1942 in French as Le Mythe de Sisyphe; the English translation by Justin O'Brien followed in 1955. In the essay, Camus introduces his philosophy of the absurd: man's futile search for meaning, …

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 …

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 …