Literature

Which French writer and existentialist could have been 100 years old on the 7th of November 2013, but died in a car accident at Villeblevin on the 4th of January 1960?

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Correct answer

Albert Camus

Explanation

The French writer Albert Camus (1913 - 1960) was born in Algeria. He lived with his French parents and grew up in extreme poverty, but succeeded entering the university. In 1940 he moved to France and was during World War II in the French Resistance. In his prose, drama and essayistic he is in contract with the existentialism's main question, how we as human beings relate to life's fundamental meaninglessness and absurdity.

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Question added 2013-11-12