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Brief-ish Paper on Albert Camus - Spirit - 06-08-2014
Today I'll be teaching you guys all about Albert Camus!
Have fun reading this completely unrelated-to-everything content!
On a more serious note, could you guys please criticize my paper or just tell me what you think of it? Also, let me know if there are any outstanding grammatical errors that I made please.
Nobel Prize winner, Albert Camus, son of Catherine and Lucien Camus, was born in Mondovi, Algeria on the 7th of November in 1913. According to NobelPrize.org, he was a representative of non-metropolitan French literature. His origin in Algeria and his experiences there in the thirties were dominating influences in his thought and work. He was the offspring of semi-proletarian parents, early attached to intellectual circles of strongly revolutionary tendencies, with a deep interest in philosophy. He was 44 when he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. Now that you have a gist of who he is, I'm going to tell you a bit about his life.
When Camus first came into this world, he only lived with his father for approximately 8 months due to the coming of World War I. Albert’s father, Lucien, was called upon to be one of the first to fight in the war. His father was wounded during the Battle of Marne. He later died of his wounds on October 11th of 1914. Due to this, Albert later had to spend his childhood in an apartment with his abusive grandmother. Shortly after moving in with his grandmother, he started going to school.
In 1930, he had to leave school due to an attack of tuberculosis; an infectious disease that can affect your lungs and other parts of your body. He wasn’t able to go back to his grandmother’s either because he didn’t want to infect his brother, because of this he moved in with Gustave and Antoinette Acault. It was at this time he started going to school again and even started getting a lot more involved with music, literature, and poetry. He had many discussions on a regular basis about the three topics with classmates; his friend, Louis Benisti, more than others.
It was during his last year at school when he started getting a lot more heavily involved with literature. Camus started publishing articles. For the next 10 some odd years, he became involved with the Communist Party, but I won’t bother talking about this. Over the years, from approximately 1930-1950, he wrote many books, novels, and stories.
It was in 1957 when Camus found out that he had won the Nobel Prize. He was informed of his achievement when he was on a date with his girlfriend, Patricia Blake. When he was told about his success with the Nobel Prize, he nearly choked on his food. Even though he was happy about receiving the prize, Camus was bothered by the fact that he received it when he was only 44 since most people received the prize more toward the end of their career – Camus was still in the midst of his; not the end. It also bothered him that he received the prize before getting to write what he thought would be his “masterpiece”. He received the prize “for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times”.
RE: Brief-ish Paper on Albert Camus - Souvarine - 06-09-2014
(06-08-2014, 11:47 PM)Maxx Wrote: Today I'll be teaching you guys all about Albert Camus!
Have fun reading this completely unrelated-to-everything content!
On a more serious note, could you guys please criticize my paper or just tell me what you think of it? Also, let me know if there are any outstanding grammatical errors that I made please.
Nobel Prize winner, Albert Camus, son of Catherine and Lucien Camus, was born in Mondovi, Algeria on the 7th of November in 1913. According to NobelPrize.org, he was a representative of non-metropolitan French literature. His origin in Algeria and his experiences there in the thirties were dominating influences in his thought and work. He was the offspring of semi-proletarian parents, early attached to intellectual circles of strongly revolutionary tendencies, with a deep interest in philosophy. He was 44 when he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. Now that you have a gist of who he is, I'm going to tell you a bit about his life.
When Camus first came into this world, he only lived with his father for approximately 8 months due to the coming of World War I. Albert’s father, Lucien, was called upon to be one of the first to fight in the war. His father was wounded during the Battle of Marne. He later died of his wounds on October 11th of 1914. Due to this, Albert later had to spend his childhood in an apartment with his abusive grandmother. Shortly after moving in with his grandmother, he started going to school.
In 1930, he had to leave school due to an attack of tuberculosis; an infectious disease that can affect your longs and other parts of your body. He wasn’t able to go back to his grandmother’s either because he didn’t want to infect his brother, because of this he moved in with Gustave and Antoinette Acault. It was at this time he started going to school again and even started getting a lot more involved with music, literature, and poetry. He had many discussions on a regular basis about the three topics with classmates; his friend, Louis Benisti, more than others.
It was during his last year at school when he started getting a lot more heavily involved with literature. Camus started publishing articles. For the next 10 some odd years, he became involved with the Communist Party, but I won’t bother talking about this. Over the years, from approximately 1930-1950, he wrote many books, novels, and stories.
It was in 1957 when Camus found out that he had won the Nobel Prize. He was informed of his achievement when he was on a date with his girlfriend, Patricia Blake. When he was told about his success with the Nobel Prize, he nearly choked on his food. Even though he was happy about receiving the prize, Camus was bothered by the fact that he received it when he was only 44 since most people received the prize more toward the end of their career – Camus was still in the midst of his; not the end. It also bothered him that he received the prize before getting to write what he thought would be his “masterpiece”. He received the prize “for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times”.
Interesting article, but it lacks some information about his literature work.
In the text you're clearly saying he won Nobel prize, but for what? You should at least name the book and I think it would be good to add some more information about his work as writer and poet.
Also, I think part about him growing up is too big compared to the rest.
RE: Brief-ish Paper on Albert Camus - Spirit - 06-09-2014
(06-09-2014, 12:34 PM)Souvarine Wrote: Interesting article, but it lacks some information about his literature work.
In the text you're clearly saying he won Nobel prize, but for what? You should at least name the book and I think it would be good to add some more information about his work as writer and poet.
Also, I think part about him growing up is too big compared to the rest.
Thanks for the feedback!
I don't believe that Albert Camus received the Nobel Prize for a certain piece of writing in particular. According to the official Nobel Prize website, he received it “for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times”; he received it not for one book in particular, but several such as “The Stranger”, “The Fall”, and his famous “The Myth of Sisyphus” (English translations).
You are right though, I do need to add more about his actual work involving literature. I'll get right on that. And to be honest, this was one of those "last minute throw together" papers.
RE: Brief-ish Paper on Albert Camus - chmod - 06-09-2014
As @Souvarine said you should discuss some of his work in more detail, after all that's the reason he won a Nobel prize and why you're writing an article about him.
other then that I spotted a spelling mistake I've highlighted and corrected it in the quote
Quote:In 1930, he had to leave school due to an attack of tuberculosis; an infectious disease that can affect your lungs and other parts of your body. He wasn’t able to go back to his grandmother’s either because he didn’t want to infect his brother, because of this he moved in with Gustave and Antoinette Acault. It was at this time he started going to school again and even started getting a lot more involved with music, literature, and poetry. He had many discussions on a regular basis about the three topics with classmates; his friend, Louis Benisti, more than others.
All in all a nice article I hadn't heard of him before so learned something new