His origin in Algeria and his experiences there in the thirties were dominating influences in his thought
and work. Of semi-proletarian parents, early attached to intellectual circles of strongly revolutionary
tendencies, with a deep interest in philosophy (only chance prevented him from pursuing a university
career in that field), he came to France at the age of twenty-five.
The man and the times met: Camus joined the resistance movement during the occupation and after the
liberation was a columnist for the newspaper Combat. But his journalistic activities had been chiefly a
response to the demands of the time; in 1947 Camus retired from political journalism and, besides writing
his fiction and essays, was very active in the theatre as producer and playwright (e.g., Caligula, 1944).
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