Possible Clues:

• "The Stranger" novelist Albert
• ''The Plague'' author
• He recognised the absurdity of being Conservative with a problem getting up
• "The Myth of Sisyphus" author
• Piece of music amusing author
• 'The Stranger' author Albert
• "The Fall" novelist Albert
• French existentialist
• French author who said 'An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself'
• Albert --, 1913-60, French author