The real salvation is not victory after fighting, but the ability to find the strength of life and peace of mind in suffering.

True generosity towards the future is to dedicate everything to the present.

Being accustomed to despair is worse than despair itself.

The struggle itself to climb to the top is enough to enrich one’s heart. People must believe that there is more to the mountain than happiness.

All great actions and thoughts have a humble beginning.

1. Introduction

Albert Camus (November 7, 1913 - January 4, 1960), French novelist, philosopher, and dramatist , critic, born in Mondovi, Algeria. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. Camus was the goalkeeper of the Algerian Athletic University team when he was young. Unfortunately, when he was 18 years old, his football career ended due to lung disease. Camus once said: "Only through football can I understand people and their souls." Camus' high-spirited humanitarian spirit has made him known as "the conscience of the younger generation." Now, more than half a century later, more and more people are aware of the importance of Camus's works and his thoughts. His famous work "The Outsider" " has been reprinted again and again, with more than 10 million copies printed. Camus had always been regarded as an existentialist before the 1950s. In 1951, Camus published his philosophical essay "The Resistance", which triggered a year-long debate with Sartre and others, and finally broke with Sartre. , only then did people discover that Camus is a representative figure of absurd philosophy and literature.

2. Influence of characters

During his short life, Camus’ writing spanned dramas, novels, essays, political commentaries and other literary genres, not only focusing on revealing the problems in daily life Absurdity, and emphasizing a "rebellious" ideological posture when paying attention to reality, making him stand out in a severe era and worthy of the title of an "existential thinker". More and more people are studying his works and thoughts, and the research results are spread all over the world.

3. Writing style

Camus’s creative characteristic is to use line drawing techniques to express the characters’ words and deeds extremely objectively. The writing is concise, lively and simple, maintaining the traditional elegant tone and pure style. His "novel is strictly a philosophy of images", which contains the philosopher's serious thinking about life and the artist's strong passion. In his short creative career, he won more honors than his predecessors. His philosophy and literary works had a great influence on later absurdist drama and new novels.