Early years and education
Albert Camus was born on 7 November 1913 in a working-class neighbourhood in Mondovi (present-day Dréan), in French Algeria. His mother, Catherine Hélène Camus (née Sintès), was

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Camus's first publication was a play called Révolte dans les Asturies(Revolt in the Asturias) written with three friends in May 1936. The subject was the 1934 revolt by Spanish miners that was

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Camus was a moralist; he claimed morality should guide politics. While he did not deny that morals change over time, he rejected the classical Marxist view that historical material relations define morality.
Camus was also strongly

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Born in Algeria to French parents, Camus was familiar with the institutional racismof France against Arabs and Berbers, but he was not part of a rich elite. He lived in very poor conditions as a child but was a citizen of France and as such was entitled to citizens' rights;

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Camus's novels and philosophical essays are still influential. After his death, interest in Camus followed the rise (and diminution) of the New Left. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, interest in his alternative road to communism resurfaced. He is

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• In Tipasa (Algeria), inside the Roman ruins, facing the sea and Mount Chenoua, a stelewas erected in 1961 in honor of Albert Camus with this phrase in French extracted from his work

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Existentialism
Even though Camus is mostly connected to absurdism, he is routinely categorized as an existentialist, a term he rejected on several occasions.
Camus himself said his philosophical origins lay in ancient

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