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Classical in form, earnest, grave and contemplative.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Albert Camus
- First published
- 1978
- Pages
- 155
- Publisher
- Marlowe & Co., Paragon House, Abacus
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English, French
- ISBN
- 9781569248232
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Albert Camus was a French Algerian author, philosopher, and journalist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. He was a key philosopher of the 20th-century and his most famous work is the novel *L'Étranger* (*The Stranger*). In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement, which was a group opposed to some tendencies of the surrealistic movement of André Breton. Camus was the second-youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature - after Rudyard Kipling - when he became the first African-born writer to receive the award. He is the shortest-lived of any literature laureate to date, having died in an automobile accident j
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