List of illustrations

1 In the workshop of Camus’s uncle in Algiers in 1920
Photo by Apic/Hulton Archive/Getty Images.

2 Albert Camus as a young dandy in Florence
Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images.

3 In the editorial offices of French resistance paper Combat, 1944
Albert Camus / Photo © Rene Saint Paul / Bridgeman Images.

4 One of the most emblematic pictures of Camus, taken by famous photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson in 1947
© Henri Cartier-Bresson/Magnum Photos.

5 Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir
Photo by David E. Scherman/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images.

6 Camus, anguished
Photo by Kurt Hutton/Getty Images.

7 Victory celebrations in Algiers at the end of the Algerian War of Independence
Photo by REPORTERS ASSOCIES/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images.