The works of the renowned 20th-century French writer-philosopher Albert Camus, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, are devoted to the painful search for the meaning of life and moral truths within the tradition of existentialism. In his novels "The Stranger" (1942), "The Plague" (1947), and "The Fall" (1956), the meaninglessness and absurdity of existence appear to the heroes as an insoluble problem they struggle with—each in their own way.