Albert Camus and tuberculosis: how illness shaped a writer

In 1933, Albert Camus, a philosophy student in Algiers, contracts tuberculosis.

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The illness forces him into two months of complete rest, transforming his outlook on life.

This ordeal becomes a pivotal moment in his literary calling and worldview.

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