From one of the most important and representative authors of the 20th century and Nobel Prize winner for Literature
Albert Camus was only 22 years old when he published, in Algeria, The Reverse and the Right , a collection of five pieces he classified as "literary essays." His trademark poetic style and concern with essential themes, such as love for the Mediterranean, the loneliness of man amidst abandonment, and the absurdity of the human condition, are already evident. A Frenchman from Algeria, Camus received the light of the Mediterranean as a gift of life, expressed in a noble writing style, somewhat Spanish, but with a varied style. More than denying God, in those youthful years, he lost interest in Him. As he matured in reflection, he understood that humankind is the ultimate value and relegated God to the fabled ideas of poets. Later, breaking with the existentialists, he denounced totalitarian regimes (especially left-wing ones) and proclaimed, in his Nobel Prize-winning Swedish Address, that "the writer cannot place himself at the service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it." The Right and the Wrong is a fundamental reading for a more comprehensive understanding of Camus's life and work.