# Albert Camus

- Id: `albert_camus`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/albert-camus/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `available`
- Content checksum: `ebae9a306f455b2b4853c746e906819e18a594562bd81b0fb4c3cdcf769a5018`

## Summary

Camus tests the absurd against lucidity, revolt against murder, and freedom against the human cost it imposes. The dialogue is bounded to seven acquired works.

## Overview

Albert Camus died on 4 January 1960.

## Lifespan

```json
{
    "display": "1913-1960",
    "era": "Early twentieth century",
    "distance": "66–113 years ago",
    "age_at_death": 47
}
```

## Intellectual tradition

```json
{
    "id": "modern-philosophy",
    "name": "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
    "detail": "Literature, the absurd, revolt and measure",
    "labels": [
        "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
        "Literature, the absurd, revolt and measure"
    ]
}
```

## Historical cutoff

```json
{
    "year": 1960,
    "display": "1960 CE",
    "reason": "Albert Camus died on 4 January 1960."
}
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 7,
    "passages": 45,
    "languages": [
        "en",
        "fr"
    ],
    "intellectual_exposures": 2,
    "typed_relationships": 0
}
```

## Places

```json
[
    {
        "name": "Mondovi",
        "period": "1913",
        "description": "Birthplace in French Algeria.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1957/camus/biographical/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Algiers",
        "period": "1913-1940",
        "description": "Childhood, study, theatre and journalism.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1957/camus/biographical/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Paris",
        "period": "1940s-1950s",
        "description": "Journalism, publishing and theatre work.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1957/camus/biographical/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Stockholm",
        "period": "1957",
        "description": "Nobel Prize ceremony and lectures.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1957/camus/biographical/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Villeblevin",
        "period": "1960",
        "description": "Place of death on 4 January 1960.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1957/camus/biographical/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Lourmarin",
        "period": "1958-1960",
        "description": "Camus bought a home here after receiving the Nobel Prize. The map does not expose an address.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://www.camus-society.com/camus-bio"
    },
    {
        "name": "New York",
        "period": "1946 visit",
        "description": "Documented public visit during Camus’s postwar literary activity.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://www.camus-society.com/camus-bio"
    }
]
```