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Camus
Algerian-French novelist, essayist, and playwright. Born into a working-class family in Algiers, he worked with a theatrical company after graduating from its university, becoming associated with leftist causes. He spent the war years in Paris, and the French Resistance brought him into the circle of J.-P. Sartre and existentialism. He became a leading literary figure with his enigmatic first novel, The Stranger (1942), a study of 20th-cent. alienation, and the philosophical essay The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), an analysis of contemporary nihilism and the concept of the absurd. The Plague (1947), his allegorical second novel, and The Rebel (1951), another long essay, developed related issues. Other major works include the novel The Fall (1956) and the short-story collection Exile and the Kingdom (1957). His plays include Le malentendu (1944) and Caligula (1944). He won the Nobel Prize in 1957. He died in a car accident.
Hamburg
City (pop., 1997 est.: 1,708,000), constituting a state, N Germany. Located on the Elbe River, it is Germany's largest port. It grew around the 9th-cent. castle of Hammaburg. Treaties with L\u00fc beck in the mid-13th cent. led to the formation of the Hanseatic League, of which it was a leader. Incorporated into the French empire in 1810-14, it became a member of the German Confederation as a free city in 1815. In World War II Allied firebombing killed some 55,000 people and devastated the city. It was rapidly rebuilt after the war. The birthplace of F. Mendelssohn and J. Brahms and home to the Hamburg Opera, it has enjoyed a distinguished musical history. It is Germany's foremost industrial city and N Germany's chief economic center.
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