ПРИНЦИПИ СВОБОДИ ТА ГУМАНІЗМУ В ТВОРЧОСТІ АЛЬБЕРА КАМЮ

The paper is devoted to the principles of freedom and humanism in the creativity of Albert Camus (1913–1960), a French writer, a laureate of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. His works revealed a unique individuality. During World War II and the fascist occupation of France, he joined the ranks of the Resistance Movement and became a member of the underground French organization in Paris. The theme of freedom and the trend of humanism are inherent in his works. A contrasting juxtaposition, a sharp transition from private, but impressive, details to a generalization, from ruthless irony to tenderness, from an angry accusation to an appeal is distinguished in the writer's style. The characters of Albert Camus’s works are decisive in their actions, they not only declare their principles of freedom, but also implement them as in the philosophical novel “The Myth of Sisyphus”. Sometimes social relations are objectively condemned in his works. One of the best works of Albert Camus that also combines existential and realist tendencies was his novel “The Plague” (1947). The leitmotif of freedom is inherent in the novel, although the life of France occupied by fascists is depicted, the struggle against fascism is depicted allegorically. Thus, the aesthetics of Albert Camus is of a dual character: the writer cannot be detached from reality, and the writer resolves practical life contradictions at the level of abstract concepts of freedom and humanism.