Algerian born Albert Camus (November 7, 1913) was a philosopher of sorts, although not in the professional sense, was an existentialist by expression, was an intellectual without any qualification, and a left winger who was too much of a free thinker for the alleged left wing free thinkers. The world remembers him through his works through which he probed and put forth his ideas about freedom and justice – reflected on the danger of either notion being an absolute claim, nature of exile – both for ones native law and from a world deprived of a god, and his idea about silence – silence of childhood, silence of political prisoner, and silence of tragic conflict.

Over his life time he published two complete cycles and a third cycle remained incomplete due to his violent and untimely death.

  His first work was a play called Revolt, 1934, when he was twenty-three, the following year he published his first novel Betwixt and....

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