★★★★★ Incomplete work published decades after his death in 1960. It's half his biography half a novel and is fully touching.
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The First Man
Albert Camus 1994 (1960)
Le Premier homme
282 pages
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It’s the 70s American wild wild west hippy “comic” – not my cup of tea.
Incomplete work published decades after it was found at his death in 1960.
It’s half his biography half a novel and is truly touching.
It talks about the life in poverty in Algiers but it’s full of love for those he was close, his mother, grandmother, uncle, friend and teacher.
Without father and without tradition, split between France and Algeria, living in the poverty, there was nobody to rely on, nobody to teach him about life, other than how to survive in the poverty, until, he met his teacher at the elementary school.
How sometimes in life, people connected not by blood but pure love can raise you.
This section of the teacher is the most moving.
Then as he grows older, it abruptly ends where he is in love.
True, this could have been a masterpiece.
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