Albert Camus (1913-1960), a French novelist, philosopher, publicist, laureate of the Nobel Prize in 1957, during his lifetime was called the "lord of thoughts", and today he is considered one of the most outstanding writers and thinkers of the 20th century, whose works are at the intersection of artistic prose and a philosophical treatise. Camus sought to remain completely independent, being in the thick of the social-ideological battle, not to bother with any of the rival camps, which was reflected in his works. Folio publishing house published his books "Alien", "Plague", "Fall", "Plays", "Exile and Kingdom".
"The First Man" is an unfinished autobiographical novel by Camus, which was published only a third of a century after the author's death and was a resounding success. When the writer died in a car accident on January 4, 1960, the draft manuscript of "The First Man" was found in his suitcase. The novel covers the life of Jacques Cormery from birth to his studies at the lyceum in Algeria - it is a touching story about childhood, adolescence, the painful love of a son for his mother, about the search for a missing father, but it is also a novel about the history of colonists in a huge and not always hospitable Algeria, about the complicated relations of this country with the colonists, about the deep consequences of the war and the political revolution...
