Early life
Camus earned this degree from the University of Algiers in 1936.
What is a philosophy degree?
These two works both appeared in 1942 one a novel, one a philosophical essay.
The Stranger and The Myth of Sisyphus*
Camus received this honor in 1957 at age 44.
The Nobel Prize in Literature
This many rooms housed Camus, his mother, brother, grandmother, and uncle.
Three rooms
Diagnosed in 1930, this illness ended Camus' football career.
Tuberculosis
Soccer/Football
Camus reported on poverty and covered court trials for this Algerian newspaper.
What is Alger Républicain?
Camus was this age when he was killed.
forty six
The slide names three things the apartment did not have.
Electricity, running water, and books
Camus' tuberculosis returned in relapses for approximately this long.
thirty years
What EXACT date was Camus born?
November 7th 1913
This 1951 essay ended Camus' friendship with Sartre
The Rebel
Camus had a famous 1952 falling out with this fellow French writer and philosopher.
Jean Paul Sartre
Camus' mother, named here, cleaned houses for a living, what is her name?
Catherine Sintès
This elementary school teacher secured the scholarship that took "a cleaner's son to the lycée."
Louis Germain
Camus was raised in this poor working class district of Algiers.
Belcourt
Published in 1994, this unfinished novel appeared 34 years after his death.
The First Man
The car that crashed belonged to this person.
his publisher
Affection in the Camus household was real but existed in this state.
What is unspoken (almost entirely)
Lucien Camus died of wounds from this battle.
the First Battle of the Marne
What two things were in his pocket when he died?
An unused train ticket was in his pocket and a "Mud stained" manuscript of "The First Man" one of his novels.
Besides novels and essays, Camus wrote for this art form, producing Caligula and The Just Assassins.
Theater Drama/Plays
Per the opening slide, these two facts matter most: his father died in this year, and his mother had these two limitations.
1914 and a mother who was partly deaf and illiterate
Camus spent his afternoons on these two places the same city Meursault walks through.
The beaches and football pitches of Algiers
From seventeen onward, the slide says Camus treated his own death not as an idea but as this.
a fact he worked around