Welcome to the Albert Camus Society of the US
The Albert Camus Society of the US was formed on January 1st 2010. Closely associated with the Albert Camus Society of the UK, the aims of the society are to promote the literature and philosophy of Albert Camus and to make an original contribution to philosophy and literary studies. The Albert Camus Society of the US and the Albert Camus Society of the UK together publish a journal together.
Latest news from the Albert Camus Society...
- August 14th 2010: Journal Submission Guidelines posted
- April 27th 2010: Call for papers posted on the blog
- March 31st 2010: Camus, A Romance book review added.
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March 26th 2010: Blog updated
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February 18th 2010 : Book review added
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February 2nd 2010 : blog updated.
Albert Camus
 Albert Camus was born in Algeria on November 7th 1913 to a working class French pied noir family. At school he did well in literature and philosophy but his first love was football. Camus may well have gone on to play professionally in goal were it not for tuberculosis contracted in 1930. Being told he may die had a profound effect on the young Camus, who lived the search for meaning, attempting to understand the absurd nature of life. During WWII, Camus found himself trapped in Paris away from his beloved Algiers, he published his most famous works: The Stranger and The Myth of Sisyphus. Both his written work, discussions with philosophers such as Sartre, and his fighting for the French Resistance taught Camus much about his existential ideas, his strong sense of morality, and his desire for a practical, liveable, philosophy. After the war Camus published further works such as The Plague, his masterpiece The Rebel and the deeply personal The Fall. Albert Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. He was killed in a car accident on January 4th 1960 at the age of 46.
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