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Title: An important, thrilling grounding in Camus and our values.
Review: If you like Camus, Algeria, existentialism, the Mediterranean, history, the Sahel, motherhood or any of the above--or even Proust--you'll be moved by THE FIRST MAN. So many questions about the origins of Arab-Western conflict, about life in North Africa, or about why we and Camus came to our world view, are richly answered here. Camus' earlier works set in Algeria, such as THE PLAGUE and THE STRANGER, are enhanced by this fragmentary revelation of his childhood reverence for "the sweet security of poverty," of simple sensual pleasures, of serving without question, and of groping, always restlessly, for one's own values
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