Who was Charles Baudelaire?
A. Charles Baudelaire was a 19th-century French poet, whose Flowers of Evil (1857) is an excellent example of Symbolism. Q. Who was Marcel Proust? A. Marcel Proust was a 20th-century French writer. His most famous work is titled, Remembrance of Things Past (7 vols., 1913-1927). Q. Who was André Malraux? A. André Malraux was a 20th-century French writer, best known for Man’s Fate. Q. Who was Jean-Paul Sartre? A. Jean-Paul Sartre was a 20th-century French author and philosopher. His writings (mainly Being and Nothingness, Nausea, No Exit) present his ideas of Existentialism. He was awarded, and declined, the Nobel Literature Prize in 1964. Q. Who was Albert Camus? A. Albert Camus was a 20th-century French writer. Through his essays (e.g., The Myth of Sisyphus) and his novels (The Stranger, The Plague, and The Fall) Camus presents his ideas of the Absurd. He received the Nobel Literature Prize in 1957. Q. Who is Eugène Ionesco? A. Eugène Ionesco is a 20th-century French playwright, whose
