Albert Camus’s philosophic thought was not abundant, novelistic and sensitive enough to be comparable with his contemporary Sartre, the master of existentialism. However, there is no denying that Camus was a weighty personality in the 20th French literary history as a widelyaccepted great writer and artist. His philosophy of life changed constantly from individual resistance to collective resistance again to “pure resistance”. As a writer constantly exploring ethics of existence, he offered us an active and shiny manner of life between goodness the evil and between activeness and inactiveness.

French literature; Camus; ethics of existence