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Albert Camus

Camus: Between Yes & No

Ray Boisvert tells us about Camus’ essential ambivalence towards the world.

If ever there were a poster child for French meritocracy, it would be Albert Camus. He was not yet two when his father was killed in World War I, and he was raised by his mother and grandmother in a tiny apartment with neither plumbing, heating nor books. Yet his teacher at the local elementary school, Louis Germain, overcame a reluctant grandmother, who wanted Albert making desperately needed income, and his gifted pupil was allowed to choose school over work. Albert Camus went on to become a noted novelist, an influential philosophical essayist, and the second youngest person to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He dedicated his Nobel acceptance address to M.

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