A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
— Albert Camus Modern

Absurdism, The Stranger

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Speech upon receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature

Date / Period

1957

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Strange & Unusual

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https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1957/camus/lecture/

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