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What is a firm hand to me, of what use to me is this astonishing power if I cannot change the order of things, if I cannot make the sun set in the east, that suffering diminish and that beings no longer die? - Albert Camus Attribution: Albert Camus (1913–1960), French-Algerian novelist, dramatist, philosopher. Gallimard (1958). Caligula in Caligula, act 1, sc. 11, Pléiade (1962).

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Albert Camus

Titles by Albert Camus:

• The Fall
• The Guest
• The Plague
• The Stranger

Salem on History:

• Albert Camus
• Albert Camus

eNotes:

• Albert Camus' Concept of the Absurd and Juan José Arreola's "The Switchman" (The Switchman)
• Albert Camus (The Stranger)
• Albert Camus (The Plague)
• Albert Camus’s ‘The Guest’: A New Look at the Prisoner (The Guest)
• Exile from the Kingdom: A Political Rereading of Albert Camus (The Guest)
• Albert Camus (The Guest)

Encyclopedia:

• Camus, Albert (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)

Salem on Literature:

• Albert Camus (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Albert Camus (Ethics (Ready Reference series))
• Albert Camus (World Philosophers and Their Works)
• Albert Camus (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
• Albert Camus (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
• Albert Camus (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)

Literary Criticism:

• Camus, Albert (Vol. 11) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Camus, Albert (Vol. 4) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Camus, Albert (Vol. 1) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Camus, Albert (Vol. 124) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Camus, Albert (Vol. 14) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Camus, Albert (Vol. 2) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Camus, Albert (Vol. 9) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Camus, Albert (Vol. 32) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Camus, Albert (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• The Guest, Albert Camus (Short Story Criticism)

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• Albert Camus is born
• Albert Camus publishes L'Etranger (The Stranger)
• Albert Camus receives Nobel Prize for Literature
• Albert Camus dies