On this day, 65 years ago, on January 4, 1960 (December 6, 1959 in the lunar calendar), French writer Camus was killed in a car accident. French literary hero-Albert Camus January 4, 1960, Albert Camus, an existentialist writer born in Algeria, Camus died in a car accident 70 kilometers southeast of Paris. The car he was riding in hit a tree and the car overturned and died. During World War II, Camus participated in the French Resistance Movement in Paris and served as editor-in-chief of the underground newspaper Le Combat. Camus's philosophical thoughts are basically existentialist thoughts. He believed that the world was an absurd circus of relative value. People are powerless in the face of the absurd world. This idea is highlighted in his novel "The Stranger" and his essay "The Myth of Sisyphus". Later, he wrote the novel "The Plague", which advocated that people rise up and fight against this absurd world. This is somewhat different from his previous thoughts. In 1957, Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. The tragedy of the car that killed Camus