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Albert Camus
A child grows up in blinding Mediterranean light, surrounded by poverty and loss. The world is beautiful, but also unfair. He learns early that the sea can be dazzling, and life can still be cruel. This is where Albert Camus begins.In nineteen thirteen, Camus is born in Mondovi, a small town in French Algeria. His father, Lucien, is gone before Camus truly knows him—killed in the First World War. The family is left impoverished, the absence of the father a permanent fact. For Camus, deprivation is not a temporary misfortune. It's the shape of ordinary life. In the crowded quarters of…
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