Saturday, March 16, 2019

Camus: The Life and Writings of Absurdity :: Biography Biographies Essays

Camus The Life and Writings of Absurdity Camus was born in a small town in eastern Algiers on November 7, 1913. His father (Lucien fearful Camus) died in 1914 aft(prenominal) being shot in the Battle of Marne in W.W.I. Camus was raised by his pose (Catherine Helene Sintes Camus) until he was seventeen, in a labor movement section of town. Sintes, his mothers maiden name was also Raymond Sintes last name in the novel The Stranger. She was illiterate and became partially deaf after she was widowed. Her husbands body was never returned to her, but a fragment of the shell that killed him along with a house painting of him was displayed in the apartment where they lived (Todd 4-6). The Camus family was poor and struggled to make ends meet, but somehow unbroken on living. Albert however did go to a snobbish chic mellowed school, despite his mothers illiteracy. The school was right next to the ocean, which could be seen from most of the classrooms. This is the origina tion of Camus fascination and love for the ocean and the sun, which comes through in many of his workings (Todd 7-16). Camus did however feel ashamed of his family, and was embarrassed by them. He get away by excelling in sports and his schoolwork, but at home no hotshot could relate to him nor could he share what he had learned because neither his mother nor his grandmother could understand what he was saying. In 1930, when Camus was seventeen, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis after becoming sick and coughing up blood (he had tuberculosis reoccurrence in 1938, 1942, 1949-50 and 1957 after his Nobel Prize). This caused him to leave school but he later returned, and he studied philosophy, politics, and how to become an educator. At this point he moved and lived with his Uncle Gustave. This circumstance provided him with a better economic life and a job as an office clerk (Todd 17-28). In 1933-34, Camus began school at the University of Algiers and taught classes at a high school. He also had begun to write his first book Le Quartier Pauvre. He dated and later married Simone Hie, whom he divorced after two years because she prostituted herself to get money that was used to support her morphine habit.

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