Albert Camus earned a worldwide reputation as a novelist and essayist and won the Noble Prize for literature in 1957. Through his writings, and in some measure against his will, he became the leading moral voice of his generation during the 1950's. Camus died at the height of his fame, in an automobile accident near Sens, France on January 4, 1960.
<Tab/>Camus's deepest philosophical interests were in Western philosophy, among them Socrates, Pascal, Spinoza, and Nietsche. His interest in philosophy was almost exclusively moral in character. Camus concluded that none of th…
