Albert Camus, French-Algerian philosopher and novelist, emphasized that the pursuit of happiness can prevent true contentment in The Myth of Sisyphus (1942). The Nobel laureate argued that if one ...
The Praxis author and Upstairs, Downstairs writer remembers a quote from Albert Camus about the doomed, mythological Greek king Sisyphus when she gets discouraged. It might be wise to take writing ...
I first met Albert Camus in the fall of 1980, when I was a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania. I say met because it felt that personal to me. His 1942 provocation “The Myth of Sisyphus” was ...
Albert Camus was a 20th century French Algerian thinker who won the Nobel Prize for his literary works. These days it is his novel The Plague that has naturally been receiving attention. In this essay ...
Publishers Weekly: A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning
University of Houston historian Zaretsky offers an invigorating blend of history, criticism, and biography in a stirring reassessment of the Nobel Prize–winning existentialist writer Albert Camus.
Mint: Quote of the day by Albert Camus on pursuit of happiness: ‘You will never be happy if….’
Quote of the day by Albert Camus on pursuit of happiness: ‘You will never be happy if….’
The Atlantic: Imagine Sisyphus Happy: How Camus Helps Fay Weldon Keep on Writing
MSN: Why Albert Camus is trending on social media and what it says about a restless 2026
A man who died in a car crash in 1960 with an unused train ticket in his coat pocket is now one of the most quoted thinkers on TikTok. Albert Camus, the French-Algerian novelist and Nobel laureate who ...