Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was born in Röcken bei Lützen, a small village in Prussia (part of present-day Germany) on October 15, 1844. He had a relatively brief but brilliant career where he published many outstanding works like Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, The Genealogy of Morals, and Twilight of the Idols. His writings inspired…

Albert Camus was born in Mondovi, French Algeria, on November 7, 1913, and died on January 4, 1960, in Burgundy, France. During the 1940’s he became known for his essays, novels, and political journalism. Some of his best-known works are exemplars of absurdism like The Plague (1947), Exile and the Kingdom (1957), The Fall (1956), and The Stranger (1942). …