Camus 1957 obtained Nobel Prize in Literature. Before 1950s, he was always regarded as an existentialist, although he denied it many times. After Camus published his philosophical thesis Rebellion in 195 1, it caused a year-long argument with Sartre and others, and finally broke with Sartre.
In his novels, plays, essays and papers, Camus profoundly reveals the loneliness of human beings in the alien world, the growing alienation between individuals and self, and the inevitability of sin and death. However, while revealing the absurdity of the world, he was not desperate and depressed. He advocates fighting absurdity and upholding truth and justice in despair. He pointed out a free humanitarian road for the world other than Christianity and Marxism. His courage to face the bleak life and his fearless spirit of "knowing what it is" made him the spokesman of his generation and the spiritual mentor of the next generation, not only in France, but also in Europe and even in the world after World War II.
In his novels, plays, essays and papers, Camus profoundly reveals the loneliness of human beings in the alien world, the growing alienation between individuals and self, and the inevitability of sin and death. However, while revealing the absurdity of the world, he was not desperate and depressed. He advocates fighting absurdity and upholding truth and justice in despair. He pointed out a free humanitarian road for the world other than Christianity and Marxism. His courage to face the bleak life and his fearless spirit of "knowing what it is" made him the spokesman of his generation and the spiritual mentor of the next generation, not only in France, but also in Europe and even in the world after World War II.