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  • It is perhaps for this reason that a thinker such as Albert Camus continues to have such influence.

    FAITH, HOPE, AND CHARITY MARY DALY 1968

  • Examining classic noir films and books by writers such as Albert Camus, Dashiell Hammett and James Cain, contributors discuss essence of film noir as reflecting a sense of disenchantment, "inversion of traditional values" and the "spiritual defeat of modernity."

    News 2008

  • What lifts Ximena out of a form of neo-nihilism - and what makes it stand apart from precursor novels such as Albert Camus's '

    Brit Lit Blogs 2008

  • Preparing for one of those dinners, I did some reading and came across a quote from Albert Camus, about those who are “allergic to hope” and unable to see a new day even after it has dawned.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • Preparing for one of those dinners, I did some reading and came across a quote from Albert Camus, about those who are “allergic to hope” and unable to see a new day even after it has dawned.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • Preparing for one of those dinners, I did some reading and came across a quote from Albert Camus, about those who are “allergic to hope” and unable to see a new day even after it has dawned.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • Olivier Todd, a former BBC correspondent in Paris, whose biography, Albert Camus: Une Vie A Life, was published in English in 2000, told the Observer that during research in Soviet archives he had not come across any reference to Moscow ordering the author's assassination.

    Albert Camus might have been killed by the KGB for criticising the Soviet Union, claims newspaper 2011

  • According to him, the accident that had cost Albert Camus his life in 1960 was organised by Soviet spies.

    Albert Camus might have been killed by the KGB for criticising the Soviet Union, claims newspaper 2011

  • Albert Camus died instantly when the car he was travelling in spun off the road in icy conditions and hit a tree.

    Albert Camus might have been killed by the KGB for criticising the Soviet Union, claims newspaper 2011

  • When the French philosopher, author and inveterate womaniser Albert Camus died in a car accident in 1960 just two years after winning the Nobel prize for literature, France's intellectual beau monde mourned what seemed an almost freakish tragedy.

    Albert Camus might have been killed by the KGB for criticising the Soviet Union, claims newspaper 2011

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