In 1942
Albert Camus published his essay on The Myth of Sisyphus then his novel The Stranger
Was Camus himself a stranger, an outsider to the French intellectual elite?
He certainly did become estranged from Sartre who greatly disliked Camus's next essay: The Rebel
During the time, after World War II, Camus lived here
working on The Plague
All four books were published with in nrf (Nouvelle Revue Française)
By his close friend Michelle Gallimard
Whose gallery is just opposite of Camus's last apartment in Paris
in January
1960 Gallimard talked Camus out of taking the train from Provence to Paris and
Driving together both died in a car accident
A
Decade later
Camus's first novel was finally published
titled A Happy Death (La mort heureuse)
So fitting the author who urged us to imagine Sisyphus happy
