Albert Camus ( 1913-1960 ) ? “ The work of art is born of the intelligence’s refusal to reason the concrete.” -Albert Camus Life in Algeria Born in Mondovi, French Algiers on November 7 1913, to a French father and a Spanish Mother After his father Lucien was killed 1914, at the beginning of WWI ( Battle of the Marne). Camus was raised by his grandmother and mother, an illiterate charwoman. Although living in extreme poverty, Camus attended the University of Algiers, …showed first 75 words of 1966 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1966 total…finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night filled mountain, in itself forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. ---Albert Camus