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Born on November 7, 1913 in Mandoui, Algeria, earned a worldwide reputation as a novelist and essayist and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1957. Though his writings, and in some measure against his will, he became the leading moral voice ....

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... to go on living once the meaninglessness of human life is fully understood. Camus referred to this meaninglessness as the “absurdity” of life. He believed that this “absurdity” is the “failure of the world to satisfy the human demand that it provide a basis for human values-for our personal ideals and for our judgments of right and wrong.” He maintained that suicide cannot be regarded as an adequate response to the “experience of absurdity.” He says that suicide is an admission of incapacity, and such an admission is inconsistent with that human pride to which Camus openly appeals. Camus states, “there is nothing equal to the spectacle of ...