Camus was deeply influenced by Gide's belief in the power as well as the drawbacks of human freedom.
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Albert Camus was the younger of two brothers. His mother was an illiterate charwoman, his father an itinerant agricultural worker who was killed in World War I. In 1923, Camus won a scholarship to the lycée in Algiers, where he studied from 1924 to 1932 and began to suffer from the incipient tuberculosis that was to plague him all his life. Already a writer of some renown in Algeria, Camus moved to Paris in 1938, where he worked in theater and publishing and as a journalist for various newspape more...
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11/07/1913 Algeria, North Africa,
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easy to read, but difficult to read well