Albert Camus speaks of happiness against a background of despair, and that is why his voice rings true. Aware as he is of the absurd, he stresses nothing like clear consciousness.

Albert Camus in Paris following the announcement that he had won the 1957 Nobel Prize for literature. (AFP/Getty Images) By David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times Book Critic .

Albert Camus, who would be 100 years old Thursday, is ageless. The French Algerian’s life and work reflect the long tragedy of the 20th century, marked by disquiet, genocide and violence, but ...

Albert Camus was born on 7 November 1913, at Mondovi, a small town in the Bone district of Eastern Algeria. His father, Lucien Auguste Camus, was an itinerant vineyard worker, ...

Albert Camus is arguably one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. His relatively short life is well chronicled and the fodder of multiple conversations in university literature classes.

NEW ORLEANS — A century ago yesterday, Albert Camus was born into a poor, overcrowded home in Algiers, Algeria, the capital of France’s colonial department. He would become one of the youngest ...

Camus remained a friend and financial supporter of RP until his death. Albert Camus’s book L’Homme Révolte (translated into English as The Rebel), published in 1951, marked a clear break between him ...

When Albert Camus died in a car accident in 1960, a manuscript of his last novel, "Le Premier Homme" ("The First Man"), was found in the wreckage near his body.

Albert Camus, Stranger in a Strange Land: New York The French writer spent three months in the city in 1946. Seventy years later, a monthlong festival is celebrating his residency.