The protagonist of the book, Zak Kormeri, travels to his hometown, Algiers. A tide of memories forces him to confront his past. He remembers the poverty, the orphanhood, the passionate peers who were into football, and the inspiring teacher who instilled in him a love for reading and books.
Now a mature man, he lives in France and wonders which side of the Mediterranean he belongs to. “In the end, I will speak for those I loved,” writes Albert Camus in a note for The First Man. This quintessential autobiographical novel was retrieved incomplete from the wreckage of the car in which he lost his life prematurely.
Within these pages, his personality and sensitivity emerge, the roots of his thought and the beginnings of his ideological commitment. Because, throughout his life, he wanted to speak on behalf of those whose voice was denied. He once said that writers “nourish the hope of rediscovering the secrets of a universal art which, with humility and mastery, would finally give life again to heroes with flesh and duration.”
The First Man is the last Camus, always moving, always captivating.
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