The Nobel Prize in Literature 1957 was awarded to Albert
Camus "for his important literary production, which with
clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the
human conscience in our times."As novelist and playwright, moralist and political theorist, Albert Camus
after World War II became the spokesman of his own generation and
the mentor of the next, not only in France but also in Europe and
eventually the world. His writings, which addressed themselves mainly
to the isolation of man in an alien universe, the estrangement of the
individual from himself, the problem of evil, and the pressing finality of
death, accurately reflected the alienation and disillusionment of the