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Article: Difficult choices for France's most reluctant existentialist. (author Albert Camus' existentialism and its conflict with his moral beliefs)(Brief Article)
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- Insight on the News
- Article date:
- March 2, 1998
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Camus was not a great political thinker or a brilliant writer, but he
had a passion for justice and freedom -- and a horror of extreme
solutions, which led him to oppose independence for his homeland.
Born in 1913, Albert Camus was
orphaned by the century's original
catastrophe when his father
was killed during the early weeks of