When Albert Camus, the French Nobel Prize-winning author, journalist and philosopher, died in 1960 at the age of 46, his literary works incorporating ideas of existentialism and absurdism were still studied and interpreted by scholars and his colleagues. Existentialism was one of the two philosophies Camus believed in and used in his works; Existentialism is a philosophical movement that focuses on the importance of individual experience and personal responsibility. The individual is seen as a free part in a deterministic and meaningless universe. The second philosophy that Camus used and believed in was absurdism; a philosophy based on the idea that life and work are meaningless and the search for order causes internal and external chaos. Camus had a dual culture as he was born in Algeria and lived most of his life in France, his cultural duality is also expressed in his works. The works of Algerian writer Albert Camus of the 1920s were deeply influenced by his experiences in French colonial Algeria, his philosophical ideas and discoveries of existentialism, and current events of his time such as war, independence, and violence . Albert Camus was born in Mondovì, Algeria. He was the second son of Lucien and Catherine Camus. Camus suffered from tuberculosis and was sent to live with his aunt and uncle. There his uncle, Gustave, was able to educate him and add curiosity to his nephew. As his writing career began to grow, Camus moved to France in 1938. Where in 1942, at the age of 29, Camus wrote his famous book, The Stranger. The connections between the protagonist, Meursault, and Camus can be seen because of similar small details between the main characters and the authors' lives. When Camus was one year old, his father died in the bat... middle of the paper. ...in the evening, leaving the office, they meet, at an unchanging hour, in cafés, walk along the same avenue or take a breath of fresh air on the balconies. The passions of young people are violent and short-lived; the vices of older men rarely go beyond addiction to bowling, banquets and "socials", or to clubs where large sums change hands at the drop of a card (Camus, The Plague)." Here he shows an example of existentialism as it is In both novels the main characters of interest are consumed by repetitive and redundant lives, which reflects the philosophy But this novel, The Plague, also perhaps shows a reason why Camus denies the existentialism in which he expresses himself that man is good or at least has the potential to be good. This is seen in the characters who choose to fight the disease and not give in to the absurdity of a meaningless universe..